The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of MF Global has approved releasing $2.2 billion more in frozen funds to customers of the firm.
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Our challenge is to ensure that financial institutions bear the direct fiscal costs of any future failures or crises -- and maybe somewhat more, given all the other costs that bank failure can impose on the economy.
In just the first half of 2009, the 15 New Democrats on Financial Services committee "received about $1.9 million in contributions from the finance, insurance and real estate industries."