Financial Reforms: Is Europe Hypocritical?
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.
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.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business
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.
Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
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.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
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.
Robert Creamer | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
The critical battles being fought in 2009 are not about "policies" -- they are about the distribution of wealth and power.
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...
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...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
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.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
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.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
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.
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...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
Will an all-powerful Fed retain its traditional autonomy, or will it take orders from Treasury, the White House and Congress?
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
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"?
Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
I am willing to bet that the group of 20 leaders will very likely fail in their aim of stabilizing the global economy.
Ian Welsh | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics
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.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 04.07.2009 | Business
For the good of the American people, Madoff's victims, and the American financial regulatory system, Madoff should be tried in open court.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business
As the credit crunch plays out, one central theme is becoming very obvious: deregulation has gone way too far.
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...
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...
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...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business