Regulatory Reform

Financial Reforms: Is Europe Hypocritical?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business


Georges Ugeux

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.

Geithner Drops the F-Bomb! Reform Will Follow

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Tim Geithner dropped the F-Bomb repeatedly the other day. And I think it's safe to say it's living proof that genuine regulatory reform is now on the way.

The "Loan Arrangers" Will Not Ride Again

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics


Rep. Barney Frank

We will prove that the best thing you can do for capitalism is to have rules that give investors the confidence to get back into the system, that protect the great majority of decent people from abuses.

Has Health Care Killed Regulatory Reform?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business


Jill Schlesinger

The same lamebrain members of Congress who were all too happy to castigate every participant in the financial crisis don't have the energy to deal with solutions to help prevent the next one.

Wall Street: Long Arrogance, Short Humility

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business


Jill Schlesinger

Humility won't eradicate years of arrogance, but along with some much needed regulatory reform, it would go a long way to help all of us move beyond this painful period.

How Progressives Can Deliver on the Promise of Change in 2009 -- Seven Rules for Success

Robert Creamer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics


Robert Creamer

The critical battles being fought in 2009 are not about "policies" -- they are about the distribution of wealth and power.

Joe Klein: Obama Needs To Get Tougher On Domestic Agenda

TIME | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of thes...

Julie Satow

Why Is The FDIC Ignoring Problem Banks?

HuffingtonPost.com | Julie Satow | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business


USA Today had a story Tuesday that pointed out how regulators were regularly absent as the banks they were supposed to be overseeing failed under moun...

Wall Street Reform: Regulators and Lawmakers Prepare for Turf War

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business


Jill Schlesinger

Rather than work together to improve the system, regulatory reform could become a classic political turf war. The problem is that once someone has the ball, he's reluctant to give it up.

Paying The Price Of Fragmented Regulation

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

In the run-up to testimony by Bank of America chief Ken Lewis on the Merrill Lynch & Co. affair, e-mails are suddenly leaking from the Beltway colander, though their ultimate source, strangely enough, is that opaque wonderland, the Federal Reserve.

How Should We Think About Bank Lobbying?

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

Reporters: Lay out the interests and report the bank lobbying and the money. Do it until readers nod off, which may be soon. It ain't pretty, but it's all we've got.

U.S. To Unveil Regulatory Reform Plan June 17: Reuters

Reuters | Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


The Obama administration plans to unveil on June 17 its sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, according to a source familiar with thinking a...

Regulatory Reform Leaks Begin

Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business


Robert Teitelman

Will an all-powerful Fed retain its traditional autonomy, or will it take orders from Treasury, the White House and Congress?

Everyone Agrees We Need to Reform Wall Street... Just Like After Enron

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

In the same way that candidates in the 2008 race had to declare that, like Obama, they were for change, today everyone is for reform of our financial system. But the question is: are we going to get real reform or are we going to get the DC version of "reform"?

Too Soon to Declare a New World Order

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business


Ann Pettifor

I am willing to bet that the group of 20 leaders will very likely fail in their aim of stabilizing the global economy.

What to Watch For In the Administration's Financial Sector Reforms

Ian Welsh | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics


Ian Welsh

Here's a partial scorecard for looking at the administration's regulation reforms. I've listed what the administration should, in my opinion, do, along with notes on how likely I think it is.

Don't Let Madoff Cop a Plea

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 04.07.2009 | Business


Aaron Zelinsky

For the good of the American people, Madoff's victims, and the American financial regulatory system, Madoff should be tried in open court.

It's Time To Re-regulate Business

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business


Hale

As the credit crunch plays out, one central theme is becoming very obvious: deregulation has gone way too far.

Paulson Plan Blasted By Small Banks, State Officials

Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business


Small banks, state officials and others began an assault on the Bush administration's sweeping plan to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory syst...

Winners And Losers In Paulson's New Regulation Plan

Wall Street Journal | Heidi Moore | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business


Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's as-yet-unnamed new plan for financial regulation likely will spark the kind of overwhelming, take-no-prisoners finan...

Proposed Revamp Taps Fed As Uber Cop

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — It's a Herculean task: revamping a financial regulatory system dating back to the Civil War to deal with 21st century crises imperi...