Finreg

Dodd-Frank Progress Report: What's Going On?

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thewatchdog, Regulations, Regulatory Impact, The Watchdog, Finreg, Health Care Reform, Watchdog, Regulation Watchdog, Financial Regulation, Business News

Welcome to our new blog, "The Watchdog," which will keep a close eye on regulatory agencies and how their actions impact the lives of everyday America...

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How Much Pesticide Residue Is On Your Food?

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thewatchdog, Regulations, Finreg, Watchdog, Government Watchdog, Business News

Welcome to our new blog, "The Watchdog," which will keep a close eye on regulatory agencies and how their actions impact the lives of everyday America...

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Community Banks Win By Losing: Inside The K Street Hustle

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dodd-Frank, Icba, Lobbying, Too Big to Fail, Finreg, Wall Street Reform, Tbtf, Wall Street, Bank Lobby, Banking, Interchange, Swipe Fees, Debit Cards, Business News

WASHINGTON - During the fight over Wall Street reform, community banks were most often pitted against their behemoth rivals. Small banks, which hold g...

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Senate Dems Prepare For Financial Regulatory Funding Battles With House

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Finreg, Senate Democrats, Dodd-Frank, House Republicans, Financial Regulation, Financial Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are steeling themselves against an assault from the House GOP, which currently aims to starve financial-oversight agenc...

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Making All the Wrong Moves

Jim Worth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Banks, Dadt, President Obama, Guantanamo, War, Regulation, Iraq, Democracy, Republicans, Democrats, Stimulus, Finreg, Tarp, Healthcare, Politics News

The unfortunate truth about Obama's first two years is a potentially great presidency is being portrayed as only an adequate presidency.

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Henry Paulson: Lehman Brothers Had To Fail

CNBC | Jeff Cox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bear Stearns, Henry Paulson, Regulations, Global Economy, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Business News, Finreg, Economy Crisis, Business News

The government let Lehman Brothers fail during the financial crisis because there was no other choice, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said We...

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Simon Johnson: With Banking Reform, Question Everything

nytimes.com | SIMON JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Basel, Capital Standards, Fdic, Financial Reform, Finreg, Wall Street Reform, Banks, Obama, Sheila Bair, g20, Business News

President Obama's signing of the financial reform bill on Wednesday does not end our intense debates over banking. Rather, it just moves them to a new...

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Financial Reform Bill Passes -- And Regulators Left To Sort Out Bill's Details

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, The Financial Fix, Financial Reform, Finreg, Banks, Regulators, Financial Reform Bill 2010, Financial Reform Act, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Business News

WASHINGTON — In the end, it's only a beginning. The far-reaching new banking and consumer protection bill that President Barack Obama intends to...

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Yo, Congress, Keep on Truckin' -- Can You Dig It?

Bill Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bronx Zoo, Supreme Court, Jeffrey Skilling, Conrad Black, Congress, Wall Street, Wall Street Reform, Finreg, Lawmakers, Speed Trap, Pcaob, Business News

There is an obligation upon those drafting laws and regulations to do so with sufficient clarity so as to convey what precise conduct is proscribed or...

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Weak Financial Regulation Is Further Defanged

Jeff Madrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Proprietary Trading, Wall Street, Volcker Rule, Financial Reform, Reregulation, Hedge Funds, Finreg, New York Times, Dodd, Volcker, Politics News

A significant story on the front page of today's New York Times explains just how easy it will probably be for the financial community to flaunt new regulation. High risk on Wall Street will go on.

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Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Unemployment, Financial Reform, Finreg, Manufacturing, Jobs, Financial Crisis, Tea Party, Third World America, Business News

'Disproportionate' is the freighted word that shackles our society: over the past few years some two-thirds of the gain in national income has gone to the top one percent of Americans.

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I'm Just Absolutely Astonished

Mary Jo Kilroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Reform, Wall Street, Wallstreet, Finreg, Kilroy, Politics News

Do you know how my opponent, former lobbyist Steve Stivers commemorated yesterday's passage of Wall Street reform? He attended a fundraiser hosted by banking and financial services lobbyists who want to repeal Wall Street reform.

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Wall Street Reform: Five Key Fights After the Bill Is Signed

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Prosecutions, Derivatives, Financial Transactions Tax, Financial Reform, Obama, Break Up the Banks, Fraud, Financial Fraud, Aig, Wall Street Reform, Tbtf, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Too Big to Fail, Finreg, Glass-Steagall, Obama Wall Street Reform, Business News

The Wall Street bill has much to be said for it, but the unfortunate truth is that it ducks several of the most critical reforms needed to protect our economy from banker abuse.

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SEC Chief Appearing Before Congress In Wake Of Financial Reform, Goldman Deal

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is appearing before Congress days after the passage of sweeping financial regula...

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The Trouble With Tim's Treasury

Marshall Auerback | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Finreg, Elizabeth Warren, Timothy Geithner, Stress Tests, Tim Geithner, Politics News

One of the major impacts of the FinReg bill passed last week by Congress is the accretion of new power to Obama's Treasury Secretary. Geithner stands to inherit vast power to shape bank regulations.

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The Summer(s) of Our Discontent

Marshall Auerback | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Finreg, Larry Summers, Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Business News

The late 90s surpluses were not the reason for that period's prosperity. The surpluses are what ended the prosperity. And until the public understands this, we should expect no fundamental improvement in economic policymaking.

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Friday Talking Points [131] -- Democratic Campaign Advice

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, Congress -- moving with its usual less-than-blinding speed -- passed a Wall Street reform bill, a mere two years after the crisis hit. Wal...

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Wall Street Reform Passes

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Regulatory Reform, Wall St Reform, The Financial Fix, Financial Reform, Finreg, Wall Street Reform, Obama Financial Reform, Business News

Nearly two years after major banks brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse, triggering a steep economic decline and crisis-levels...

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Ben Nelson Bucks Party, Helps GOP Block Jobless Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ben Nelson Wall Street, Ben Nelson, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Cornhusker, Finreg, Cornhusker Kickback, Economy, Politics News

Ben Nelson is nothing if not sensitive. In May, as the Senate stuffed a Wall Street reform amendment that would have done away with exorbitant ATM fe...

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Reid Bringing Wall Street Reform To Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will file cloture on the Wall Street reform report on Tuesday, paving the way for a final vote later this week. On the Senate...

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Elizabeth Warren To Head Consumer Protection Bureau?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, The Financial Fix, Warren CFPB, Financial Reform, Cfpb, Finreg, Wall Street Reform, Consumer Finance Protection, Politics News

Once President Obama signs Wall Street reform into law, the battle will move off the front pages, but it'll be far from over. Who the president picks ...

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Big Victory in the House, but Big Fight Remains

Heather Booth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Reform, Finreg, Americans for Financial Reform, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, House Financial Regulation, Politics News

We are close to winning passage of reforms that will keep billions of dollars in consumer's pockets and begin the reversal of decades of deregulation. We can't lose momentum now.

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Ben Nelson Denies That Buffett Influenced FinReg Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Regulatory Reform, Warren Buffett, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Financial Reform, Finreg, Ben Nelson, Berkshire Hathaway, Lobbyblog, Eat the Press, Politics News

The financial regulatory reform bill currently wending its way through Congress incorporated a reform of the derivatives market, prompting famed inves...

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Dodd: Wall Street Reform Conference Committee Will Be Reopened

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE - 4:19 p.m. - The conference committee will meet at 5:00 Tuesday afternoon to make final changes to Wall Street reform. Ahead of the gathering,...

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Scott Brown Will Oppose Wall Street Reform If Wall Street Is Taxed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Financial Fix, Scott Brown Wall Street, Scott Brown, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Finreg, Wall Street Reform Kickback, Bay State Buy-Off, Business News

UPDATE - Tuesday - 12:15 p.m. - Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), after securing a loophole in the final Wall Street reform bill, announced Tuesday that he ...

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