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Shahien Nasiripour

Congressional Committees Quietly Kill Portion Of Derivatives Bill; No One Watching For Systemic Risk

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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Two congressional committees in charge of drafting legislation to regulate derivatives have quietly killed a provision that would allow the Federal Re...

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Claims of Financial Reform Victory? You Can't Reform Vampires and Zombies

Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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Marshall Auerback

Obama clearly seems to have imbibed some of the Chicago School's free market ideology, and the unspoken assumption that free, unfettered markets are the optimal state.

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Electronic Trading For Derivatives To Increase Transparency: Geithner

bloomberg.com | Matthew Leising | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business

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May 13 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury will tell banks to increase transparency in the over-the-counter derivatives market by making prices availabl...

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