Regulatory Reform

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Trading Profits Up 11 Percent For Banks; JPMorgan Chase Leads The Way

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Occ, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Wells Fargo, Profits, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Comptroller of the Currency, Financial Crisis, Banks, Paul Volcker, Trading, Wall Street, Citigroup, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Despite controversy surrounding the financial instruments known as derivatives -- and legislation that might finally start to regulate them -- the nat...

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Consumer Agency Should Include Auto Watchdog, Advocates Say

AP | EMERY P. DALESIO | Posted 12.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Finance Industry Watchdog, Auto Dealers, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Regulatory Reform, Auto Industry, Financial Regulation, Business News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Consumer advocates argued Wednesday that Congress should include auto dealers under the oversight of a proposed finance industry...

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Krugman: Obama Intimidated By Wall Street Scare Stories

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Regulatory Reform, Obama Jobs, Obama Economy, Regulatory Reform, President Obama, Obama Wall Street, Obama Regulatory Reform, Obama Financial Regulatory Reform, Obama Economic Policy, Obama Financial Reform, Politics News

A funny thing happened on the way to a new New Deal. A year ago, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; today, the reigning doctrine in Washin...

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Senator Says Loophole In Derivatives Regulation Undermines Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Cantwell, Occ, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Derivatives Reform, Collin Peterson, Barney Frank, Main Street, Bailout, Maria Cantwell, Wall Street, Business News

The effort to impose new restrictions on the financial system falls short of true reform if there's a gigantic loophole for foreign exchange derivativ...

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Dodd's Finacial Reform Bill Strips The Federal Reserve Of Too Much Power, Say Critics

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Senate Banking Committee, Regulatory Reform, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Chris Dodd, Fiscal Policy, Transparency, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Re...

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White House Official Feels 'Nervousness' About Dodd's Regulatory Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chris Dodd Financial Regulation, Nervousness Goolsbee, Austan Goolsbee, Dodd Regulatory Reform, Regulatory Reform, Financial Regulations, Transparency, Politics News

(Updated with response from Dodd's office; see below.) One of the president's top economic advisers expressed concerns Friday that financial regulat...

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Derivatives Reform: 'Tricky Exceptions' Leave Market Unchecked: The Nation

thenation.com | William Greider | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Economy, Derivatives, Barney Frank, Bank of America, Regulatory Reform, Obama Administration, Derivatives Trading, Financial Regulation, House Financial Services Committee, Citigroup, Transparency, Business News

The Obama administration promised to reform the financial system and make it safe for the rest of us, but recent Congressional action is more likely t...

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State Regulators: Dodd's Bank Bill Creates Another 'Too Big To Fail' Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

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State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...

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How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress And The SEC

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Paul Kanjorski, Chuck Shumer, Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Schumer, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Floyd Abrams, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Sec, Chris Dodd, Huffington Posts Investigative Fund, Business News

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here. When the n...

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Derivatives Just "A Sophisticated Form Of Gambling," U.S. Senators Say; Propose Bill Allowing State Gambling Laws To Apply

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Ron Wyden, Cftc, Financial Reform, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Maria Cantwell, Derivatives Regulation, Preemption, Bernie Sanders, Financial Regulation, Gambling, Financial Crisis, Gary Gensler, Business News

In describing the complex and little-understood world of derivatives trading as "a sophisticated form of gambling," three U.S. Senators proposed legis...

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Jamie Dimon, Head of JPMorgan Chase: "Everyone Should Be Allowed To Fail"

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase, J.P. Morgan Chase, Washington Mutual, Too Big to Fail, Regulatory Reform, Office of Thrift Supervision, Ots, Financial Crisis, Aig, Jamie Dimon, Sifma, Financial Regulation, Business News

The head of the country's second-biggest bank, considered by many to be "too big to fail," said Tuesday that no firm should be immune from failure. ...

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Why Growing Income Inequality Is Bad for America

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Howard Rosenthal, Jared Diamond, Aig, Cigna Insurance, Bi-Partisanship, Wall Street Bonuses, Distribution of Income, Nolan McCarty, Wall Street Bail Out, J.P. Morgan Chase, Public Option, Regulatory Reform, Political Polarization, Paul Krugman, Kevin T. Poole, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

The CEO of the average company in the S&P Index makes $10.5 million. That means that on the first workday of the year, he (sometimes she) has made more than the minimum wage workers in his company will make all year.

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Executive Compensation: The Best Halloween Costume

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: PBS Frontline, Regulatory Reform, Executive Compensation, Brooksley Born, Derivatives, Business News

Limiting executive compensation is a terrific way to appease the masses and make it look like you're doing something without having to embark on the hard work of true regulatory reform.

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Consumer Financial Protection Act Passed By House Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Regulatory Reform, Consumer Financial Protection Act, Cfpa, Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee, Video, Politics News

The proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency took another step forward Thursday in the House, moving out of the Financial Services Committee -- a...

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Goldman Sachs's Black Magic: Take Two (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Goldman Sachs, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives Reform, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Dylan Ratigan, Business News

Earlier today, on Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan attempted to demonstrate the way Goldman Sachs-- rescued from collapse a year ago by taxpayers -- man...

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Michael Hirsh: Barney Frank's Derivatives Bill "Too Hard To Understand"

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Barney Frank Derivatives Bill, Wall Street Regulation, Wall Street, Economy, Financial Services Committee, Too Big to Fail, Barney Frank, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives Trading, Derivatives Bill, Economic Collapse, Too Hard to Understand, Financial Regulation, Business News

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...

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Nader: Federal Reserve "Doesn't Even Know How To Spell Consumer Protection" (VIDEO)

Yahoo Finance | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer, Elizabeth Warren, Regulatory Reform, Federal Reserve, US Chamber of Commerce, Consumer Protection, Ralph Nader, Business News

Consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader appeared on Yahoo Tech Ticker today to discuss President Obama's plan for a consumer f...

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Bloomberg Reports Derivatives Regulatory Legislation Contains Large Loopholes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Derivatives, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Financial Regulations, Derivatives Reform, Barney Frank, Business News

Hey kids! Were you holding out hope that someone might do something to robustly regulate the derivatives market that wrought such wrack and ruin to th...

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Combating the Disease of Progressive Cynicism

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, President Obama, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Regulatory Reform, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Clean Energy, Progressive Movement, Labor Law Reform, Financial Sector Reform, Health Insurance Reform, Jim Messina, Health Care, Politics News

One thing I know for sure. If progressives constantly pronounce the public option dead -- it will be. The cynics will create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Hoyer: Financial Reform Floor Vote Coming Next Month

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steny Hoyer, House Democrats, Regulatory Reform, Barney Frank, Financial Reform, Financial Regulatory Overhaul, House Financial Services Committee, Politics News

Look for financial regulatory reform to get a House floor vote in November, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday. "We expect to bring that bill t...

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Bernanke's 5 Ways To Fix The Financial System: READ His Prepared Congressional Testimony

federalreserve.gov | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives, Regulatory Reform, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Note: Below is the full text of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's prepared remarks delivered earlier today. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke Regulatory reform...

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Just How Corrupt are the Bank Regulators?

Garrett Johnson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

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

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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Don't Let Bankers Gut the Consumer Protection Agency

Tram Nguyen | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Regulatory Reform, Banks, Bailout, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News

As history has shown, the only way to counter organized greed is to organize people.

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Remember That Whole Thing About Fixing Our Financial System?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

"Everybody understands," Geithner said on This Week, "that we cannot have our financial system go back to the practices that brought this economy to the brink of collapse." The problem is, it already has.

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Financial Reforms: Is Europe Hypocritical?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Regulatory Institutions, London, G20 Summit, Regulatory System, European Parliament, G20 CommuniquéS, Hedge Funds, Ratings Agencies, Stimulus Package, President Sarkozy, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Wall Street, Tax Havens, Short Sales, " Council of Ministers, European Central Bank, Stress Tests, TARP Money, European Union, United States, Credit Cards, Oecd, France, Transparency, European Summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Regulations on Compensation, Regulatory Reform, Sec, “Locusts”, President George W. Bush, Business News

European bank losses were as high as the U.S. They used the same compensation system, and their fragmented and ineffective regulatory system shares responsibility for the crisis.

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