Don't sleep on Jackie Speier. The freshman Democrat from California came into the House Financial Services Committee room Thursday ready to fight for ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Updated at 7:45 p.m. ET Every action taken by federal regulators against large, systemically-important financial firms -- those commonly referred to ...
Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, it sounds like a reasonable idea: A proposal granting the White House broad new authority to take over w...
Rep. Jackie Speier | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
How would you feel if you discovered that a highly-rated bond received its grade not because the company is strong, but because the rating agency assumed the government would bail the company out?
New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
It certainly sounded good. Hoping, perhaps, to persuade a dubious public that curbing reckless business practices is indeed a Washington priority, t...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The House Financial Services Committee agreed Wednesday to ensure states can impose their own tough consumer protection laws agains...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...
New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Derivatives regulation has been on the nation's financial reform agenda for months. Undoing the Clinton-era law that exempted swaps from oversight is ...
Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Thanks to weeks of intense pressure from Wall Street banks and their customers in corporate America, the bill that was approved on Thursday by Rep. Ba...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
Backers of President Obama's cornerstone financial regulatory reform proposal pushed back Monday against the Blue Dog Coalition, which is promoting a ...
Harry Moroz | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration is currently losing its argument for the CFPA. It is suffering under some of the same criticisms as its health care reform plan: in particular, that choice will be limited by minimum regulatory standards.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Intense lobbying pressure from Wall Street has slowed the progress of a major piece of financial regulatory reform legislation. Financial Services Com...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics