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Just How Corrupt are the Bank Regulators?

Garrett Johnson | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Bank Regulation, Fdic, Deregulation, Regulatory Reform, Banks, Regulation, Financial Regulation, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Business News
Garrett Johnson

Can we really expect the FDIC to effectively regulate the banks that have loaned them money so that they can do their job?

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California's Own Bernie Madoff

Jerry Brown | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business

Read More: California AG, Chais Victims, California, Investment, Madoff, Attorney General, Jerry Brown, Deregulation, Ponzi Scheme, Regulation, Bernard Madoff, Stanley Chais, Investor, Los Angeles, Chais Scheme, Business News
Jerry Brown

Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors' funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.

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Fair

Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Bernard Madoff, Deregulatory Tsunami, Wall Street CEOs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Economic Recession, Deregulation Banking, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Business News
Norman Horowitz

We are all victims of a deregulatory Tsunami that has been in process in order to make the "big guys bigger."

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The Root of Madoff's Evil

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Rubin, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Economy, Economic Crisis, Deregulation, Regulation, Bernard Madoff, Sec, Business News
Robert Scheer

How convenient for the judge and the media to paint Bernard Madoff as Mr. Evil, a uniquely venal blight on an otherwise responsible financial industry in which money is handled honestly and with transparency.

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Ritholtz: Why Does UBS Still Employ Phil Gramm?

The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Phil Gramm, Deregulation, Finanical Regulation, Barry-Ritholtz, Finanical Crisis, Business News

Last week, UBS announced a 2nd Quarter loss "due to restructuring charges." The banking giant is raising $3.45 billion in a stock sale. Partly owned ...

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Elite Deception and the Rise of Inequality

Sahil Kapur | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: George W. Bush, Conservatives, Elite, John Kerry, Tax Cuts, Gop, John McCain, Democrats, Barack Obama, Deregulation, Elitism, Republicans, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

By deflecting their elitism onto their rivals, the party of plutocrats has for decades held the trust of millions of Americans while simultaneously swindling them.

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It's the Global Economy (Stupid) -- or Is It?

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: G20 Summit, Global Economy, Nafta, European Union, Free Trade, Globalization, Global Financial Crisis, g20, Global Economic Crisis, Economy, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, United Nations, Fiscal Stimulus, Monetary Policy, Keynesian Economics, Economic Stimulus Package, Deregulation, World News
Mark Weisbrot

The contemporary idea of the "global economy" is based on a misapplied analogy to the historical development of national economies.

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News Flash: Greed and Stupidity Can Coexist!

Monica Youn | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deregulation, David Brooks, New York Times, Government Bailout, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Politics News
Monica Youn

If government officials are in the pocket of Wall Street, how can we expect them to identify and defuse problems before they turn into catastrophes?

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Too Soon to Declare a New World Order

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Regulatory Reform, Deregulation, Globalization, Imf, Global Financial Crisis, G-20 Summit, New-World-Order, Business News
Ann Pettifor

I am willing to bet that the group of 20 leaders will very likely fail in their aim of stabilizing the global economy.

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Obama and the G-20

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Economic Stimulus Package, Economic Crisis, Russia, Deregulation, Regulation, China, G-20, Barack Obama, Recession, United Kingdom, London-United Kingdom, World News
Lincoln Mitchell

Due to the impact of the downturn in the US and its effect on the rest of the world, Obama is forced into a very strange position -- one that is part rock star and part Dr. Doom.

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Fix the Airlines Instead of Bailing Out Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Indianapolis, Wall Street Bailout, Small Business, Sales, Ronald Reagan, Img, Faa, Business Travelers, Bailouts, Cincinnati, Travel, Airport Security, Business, Southwest Airlines, Air-Traffic-Control, Airport Delays, Memphis, Dayton, Louisville, Marketing, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Bill Clinton, Air Traffic Control, Mark McCormick, United Airlines, Washington DC, Airports, Don McNay, Harvard Business School, American Airlines, Air Travel, Airline Industry, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Bermuda, Business Travel, Deregulation, Jimmy Carter, Entrepreneurship, Airlines, Productivity, Chris Rock, Business News
Don McNay

I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.

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Sex, Spitzer, Derivatives: Using Our Outrage

Ari Melber | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gramm, Dorgan, Derivatives, Bank, Spitzer, Deregulation, 2008 Campaign, Bank Regulation, Glass-Steagall Act, Gao, Glass-Steagall, New York-New York, Politics News
Ari Melber

In a galling demonstration of Washington's tangled priorities, leaders in both parties still refuse to tap Eliot Spitzer's expertise for policymaking and enforcement in the current crisis.

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Prime Time O: How the Omnipresent President Is Doing

William Bradley | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media

Read More: London, Bill Clinton, White House, Aig, Nato, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Global New Deal, Climate Change, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Deregulation, Afghanistan, Wall Street Greed, G-20, Tim Geithner, The Tonight Show, California, Town Hall, Media News
William Bradley

Obama's all-media offensive is working, and, coincidence or not, is happening at the same time as some good news.

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Stop the Financial Services "Super Czar" (Updated)

Don McNay | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiddler on the Roof, Wall Street Bailout, Populism, Hank Paulson, Shelia Bair, Main Street, Regulation, Bailout, Insurance, Obama Average Americans, Washington, Kentucky, Constitution, Wall Street Bonuses, Lexington KY, National-Association-of-Insurance-Commissioners, Personal Finance, State-Insurance-Regulators, Fdic, Financial Services, Systemic-Risk, Aig, Don McNay, Representative-Government, Insurance Companies, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Wall Street Regulators, Tim Geithner, Deregulation, Car Czar, Banking Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Systemic Risk Regulator, House Financial Services Committee, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Don McNay

There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.

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Should Geithner, Summers, Bernanke et al. Go?

Judith Ellis | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, John Bogle, Larry King LIve, Chris Dodd, Richard Shelby, Arianna Huffington, Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Aig, Finance, Deregulation, Tresury Secretary, Economic Growth, Ben Bernanke, Politics News
Judith Ellis

Nassim Nicholas Taleb addresses some very important issues in an interview with CNBC. On my blog I have written more than a few posts on this brillian...

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Slapped by the Invisible Hand

Mike Papantonio | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Markets, Ring of Fire, Chelsey-Sullenberger, Mike Papantonio, Industry, Airline Industry, Deregulation, American Airlines, Invisible Hand, Air America Radio, Delta, Pilot, Business News
Mike Papantonio

As Sullenberger continues to speak out, he should make it clear that all the pilots and crews who are still operating in the deregulated airline industry are truly heroes.

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Phil Gramm Takes No Blame

Jeff Madrick | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deregulation, Phil Gramm, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, Lehman, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics News
Jeff Madrick

Gramm's deregulationist spirit is all over this crisis.

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Texas Electricity Rates Skyrocketed After Deregulation

Texas Star-Telegram | Dave Montgomery | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Electricity Rates, Texas Electricity Rates, Electricity, Texas Deregulation, Economy, Business News

Electricity rates in Texas have soared well above the national average under a 10-year-old deregulation law, according to a study by a coalition of ci...

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Wealth Without Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Wall Street Bailout, Main Street and Wall Street, Cnbc, Too Big to Fail, Enron, Main Street, Don McNay, Insurance Companies, Cirtigroup, Small Business Administration, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Charlie Gasparino, Citigroup Bailout, Deregulation, Banks, Kentucky, CEO Compensation, Entrepreneurship, Bonuses, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Bonuses, Personal Finance, Soviet Union, Citigroup, Oregon, Business News
Don McNay

There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.

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From Nightmares to Dreams Come True

Michael DeJong | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Hope and Change, The Grapes of Wrath, Pakistan, Deficits, Pursuit of Happiness, Blood Diamonds, Early to Bed..., Iraq, An Inconvenient Truth, Iran, Infrastructure, Starvation, Unemployment, Jr, American Dream, Fiscal Mismanagement, Homeless, Katrina, Bling-Bling, Green-Collar Jobs, Health Care, Real Housewives of Orange County, Safety Nets, Haves and Have Nots, Civil Rights Laws, The Great Gatsby, Home Foreclosures, Martin Luther King, Middle-Class, Incoming Administration, City Upon a Hill, Genocide, Deregulation, Mac Mansions, Sluggish Wages, Afghanistan, North Korea, Post-Bush-Alyptic, Living News
Michael DeJong

Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will "do better" than the last. Things are starting to feel more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby."

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Bush's Pure Genius Moves: 9/11, Gunfights, Cheney, the Economy, and More

Bill Allen | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, 2000 Election, Humor, Sarah Palin, Economic Crisis, 9/11, Deregulation, President Bush, Dick Cheney, American Library Association, Politics News
Bill Allen

In a brilliant move, President Bush found almost the only way possible to make people forget the tenure of John Ashcroft: naming Albert Gonzalez his successor.

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Leadership, Strategy, and Experts. More lessons for Obama.

John O'Neil | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Job Losses, Political Experts Bias, Green Collar Jobs, Republican Party Deregulation, Economic Experts, Economy, National Infrastructure, John Gardner, New Jobs, Obama Leadership, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama Community Organizer, Obama Economic Recovery Plan, Obama White House, Obama Advisers, Community Organizers, Deregulation, Green Economy, Al Gore, President Bush Deregulation, Dallas, Politics News
John O'Neil

The nation must boldly rebuild to avoid the perils of a dangerously gyrating world where yesterday's swaggering certainty is tomorrow's worn out wisdom.

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America's Choice: Destruction or Construction

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Institute for America’s Future, Election 2008 Coverage, Trickle Down, Election Day, Economy, Katharine Lee Bates, Main Street, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Fannie Mae, Election Anxiety, Congress, A Main Street Recovery Program, Barack Obama, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Privatization, Off-Shoring, Deregulation, Foreclosure, America the Beautiful, Alan Greenspan, Tech Bubble, Housing Bubble, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

America is suffering. She is, however, afflicted with an avoidable condition she brought on herself, like a hangover. Only this one's interminable and internationally contagious.

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Today Is Human Rights Day

Michael DeJong | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Environmental, Human Rights, Mass Consumption, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Cradle-to-Cradle, Freedom, Eleanor Roosevelt, UN General Assembly, Deregulation, Green Living, Sustainability, Living News
Michael DeJong

Living consciously and mindfully of the potential for cradle-to-cradle living and sustainability is empowering enough to make tiny but impactful different choices in our purchases.

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End the Recession! Now!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Recession, Geoff Colvin, Paul Krugman, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Depression, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Today Fortune editor Geoff Colvin looks at four potential repositories for blame in our ongoing saga of doom. They're a credible group of whipping boys, from Greenspan to Clinton to the collapse of regulation.

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