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Commodity Futures Modernization Act

How to Regulate Derivatives: Barry Ritholtz

The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Phill Gramm, Financial Reform, Derivatives, Barry-Ritholtz, Alan Greenspan, Gary Gensler, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cftct, Business News

Any plan that seeks to reverse the unregulated wild west that derivatives have existed in since 2000 must have a simple beginning: Repeal the Commodit...

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UBS Money Laundering: What Did Phil Gramm Know?

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Money Laundering, Ubs, Phil Gramm, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, Business News
Robert Scheer

Given the widespread involvement of UBS in what the Justice Department alleges were efforts to violate U.S. tax laws, it must be asked: Did Gramm have no inkling about what was going on?

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Larry Summers: Brilliant Mind, Toxic Ideas

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Timothy Geithner Treasury Secretary, Gramm-Leach-Biley Act, Economic Crisis, Larry Summers, Obama Economy, Lawrence Summers, Obama Economics, Wall Street Crisis, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Glass-Steagall, Sleep, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

It was on Summers' watch that the credit-default swaps warhead that has blown up our economy was launched. It would be hard to make assumptions that turned out to be more wrong than his were.

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AIG Executives Win Record Government Bailout: Next Stop, Disneyland

Deborah Senn | Posted 11.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Regulation, Aig, Credit Default Swaps, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Insurance, Disneyland, Business News
Deborah Senn

Too often insurers create labyrinthine corporate structures to avoid oversight -- when the "non-insurance" holding company is the puppet-master for the entire corporate entity.

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Fifty Chimpanzees or One Toothless Gorilla

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Deregulation Crisis, Insurance, Congress, GLBA, Depression-Era, Phil Gramm, Policyholders, Economy, Senate Banking Committee, Cds, Credit Default Swaps, Capital Adequacy, Financial Securities, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, State Insurance Regulators, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Bailout Cost, Gramm Leach Bliley Act, Financial Meltdown, Subsidiaries, Business News
Deborah Senn

AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)

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A Nation of Village Idiots

James Moore | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: A Nation of Village Idiots, U.S. Economy, Phil Gramm, Mccain Phil Gramm, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Economy, Charles Keating, Enron, Financial Crisis, Alan Greenspan, John McCain Keating 5 Scandal, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Keating Five, Savings and Loan Scandal, Socialists, Business News
James Moore

Don't let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It's not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy.

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McCain Econ Advisor Phil Gramm: Recession Starter

Lou Dubose | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Bear Stearns, Credit Derivatives, Phil Gramm, Senator McCain, Derivatives, Deregulation, Senate Banking Committee, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, John McCain, Credit Defaults, Mortgage Crisis, Home News
Lou Dubose

Former Texas senator Phil Gramm is McCain's economic brain, and the current economic crisis is not the first one made possible by Gramm's sneaky commodity futures act of 2000.

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