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GOP 'Cost-Benefit' Bill Benefits Wall Street and Costs Americans

Rep. Gwen Moore | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Deregulation, Sec, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Wall Street, Securities and Exchange Commission, Gwen Moore, Regulatory Accountability Act, Politics News
Rep. Gwen Moore

Republicans again have it all wrong as they bring to the House floor the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, or the so-called SEC "cost-benefit" bill. The bill seeks to not only undo Dodd-Frank, but all financial market regulation past, present, and future.

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IRS Kerfuffle Shows Need for Disclosure Reforms

Blair Bowie | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Elections 2012, Sec, Transparency, U.S. PIRG, Irs, Citizens United, Crossroads GPS, Dark Money, Disclosure, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Blair Bowie

Equally, if not more, disturbing, is that other than the investigation of this handful of groups, the IRS hasn't actually taken the steps needed to ensure that sham non-profits are not abusing the tax code to flood our elections with secret money.

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Paul Blumenthal

'No One Is Working' On Corporate Disclosure Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics
Read More: Mary Jo White, Transparency, Corporate Political Contributions, Corporate Reform Coalition, Sec Disclosure Rule, Sec, Corporate Contributions, Citizens United, Corporate Political Spending, Mary Jo White Political Disclosure, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission is not currently writing a rule to require public corporations to disclose their political contri...

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SEC Considering Review Of Stock Market

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business
Read More: Mary Jo White, Stock Market, Reuters, Sec, Mary Jo White Stock Market, Sec-Stock-Market, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White, is on board with calls for a broad review of the framework of ...

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JPMorgan Facing Crackdown From Unlikely Regulator

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2013 | Business
Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Video, Jpmorgan Energy Regulation, Jpmorgan, Reuters, Banks, Jpmorgan Chase Energy Scandal, Jpmorgan Lawsuit, Sec, Business News

May 8 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co and some of its personnel face a possible enforcement action by the Federal Energy Regulatory ...

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Ghosts of Enron

Mike Lux | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Sec, Occ, Arthur Andersen, Sherrod Brown, Ferc, Libor, Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act, George W. Bush, TBTF Banks, Enron, Jamie Dimon, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Dailyenron, Politics News
Mike Lux

The ghosts of the Enron Corporation are haunting us still, and they are a lot scarier than any horror movie ghosts because, unlike the Hollywood variety, these ghosts still have enough substance to cause an economic nightmare.

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Should Bitcoin Peg Itself To The Dollar?

Max Keiser | Posted 04.26.2013 | Business
Read More: Bitcoin, Sec, Currency Peg, Bitcoin Exchanges, China, Fincen, Cftc, Business News
Max Keiser

With Bitcoin, there is an interesting corollary with China and its currency peg. Why not peg Bitcoin to the dollar, at let's say $100 BTC to the dollar?

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SEC Taps Wall Street Lawyer to Police Wall Street

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics
Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Law, Lawyers, Financial Reform, Revolving Door, Regulation, Government, Mary Jo White, Politics, JP Morgan, Wall Street, Finance, SEC Revolving Door, Aol Time Warner, Sec, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, News, Andrew Ceresney, Financial Regulation, Politics News
Project On Government Oversight

The appointment comes as no surprise because the agency typically draws regulators from the ranks of the regulated. But it does illustrate a significant problem: by relying so heavily on people with industry connections, the SEC can tangle itself in conflicts of interest.

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Will Congress Bully SEC into Ignoring JOBS Act Concerns?

Barbara Roper | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Read More: Mary Jo White, Investor Protection, Consumer Federation of America, Sec, Mary Jo White Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Jobs Act, House Financial Services Committee, Politics News
Barbara Roper

There is a scandal here, but it is not the one House Republicans have seized on.

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Paul Blumenthal

Half A Million Calling On SEC For More Disclosure

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Read More: Mary Jo White, Sec Corporate Political Spending, Corporate Political Contributions, Video, Corporate Disclosure, Disclosure, Sec Disclosure Rule, Sec, Citizens United, Corporate Political Spending, Campaign Finance, Dark Money, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The number of public comments submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on a rulemaking petition to require corporations...

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A Year of Living Obliviously

Gregory C. Simon | Posted 04.10.2013 | Small Business
Read More: Sec, Jobs Act, Obama Jobs, Small Business, Investment, Economy, Obama Jobs Act, Ftc, Recession, Small Business News
Gregory C. Simon

A majority of both parties supported the JOBS Act and leaders in both parties claim credit for the accomplishment. You would think they would want to implement the Act as soon as possible, but except for a few members in either chamber, the Congress is oblivious too.

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No More Hiding From Regulators

Dave Lauer | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Read More: Wall Street Reform, High-Frequency Trading, Sec, Stock Market, The SEC, Business News
Dave Lauer

Instead of technology bringing about a revolution in surveillance and enforcement, we've seen the opposite. It's time for change, and right away.

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CONFIRMED

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Read More: Mary Jo White, Reuters, Sec, Mary Jo White Confirmed, Mary Jo White Sec, Mary Jo White Confirmation, SEC Chairman, Business News

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed former federal prosecutor Mary J...

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SEC Gives Reed Hastings Green Light

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2013 | Business
Read More: Twitter, Reuters, Sec, Facebook, Sec Facebook Twitter, Sec Announcements, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regulators said on Tuesday that companies can use Twitter, Facebook and other social media to make key announcements as long as...

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Ex-SEC Chairman Nabs Risk Management Job

AP/HuffPost | Posted 04.02.2013 | Business
Read More: Revolving Door, Sec, Mary Schapiro, Promontory Financial Group, Business News

WASHINGTON — Former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Schapiro has joined Promontory Financial Group. The risk-management, regulat...

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Walmart To Incur Loss From Bribery Probe

AP | Posted 03.27.2013 | Business
Read More: Walmart, Walmart Bribery, Walmart Profit, Sec, Walmart Mexico, Walmart Bribery Probe, Business News

NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it is `probable' that the world's largest retailer will incur a loss due to ongoing bribery investigations ...

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Regulators Approve Facebook IPO Fix

Reuters | Posted 03.25.2013 | Business
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(Reuters) - Regulators on Monday approved a plan to compensate market makers who lost money in a botched Facebook Inc public offering in May on the Na...

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The SEC Embraces Irony -- its Enforcement "Inflection" "Point"

William K. Black | Posted 05.18.2013 | Business
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William K. Black

The "good news" is that SEC enforcement actions against the elite banksters have been rare, rarely litigated, routinely settled without any useful admissions of guilt, and never pressed to the point that crime does not pay - magnificently. The bad news is that the SEC is getting worse.

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Prospective SEC Chairman Dismisses Revolving Door Concerns

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Read More: Government, Mary Jo White, White House, JPMorgan Chase, Politics, Wall Street, President Barack Obama, Financial Reform, President Obama, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Regulation, Politics News
Project On Government Oversight

Mary Jo White -- President Obama's nominee to serve as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) -- said at her confirmation hearing today that the investing public need not worry about her history of defending companies from the government.

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Ben Hallman

Presumed SEC Chair Promises 'Unrelenting' Wall Street Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 05.12.2013 | Business
Read More: Mary Jo White, Video, Mary-Jo-White-Senate, Mary Jo White Testimony, Business News, Sec, Mary Jo White Obama, Mary Jo White Sec, SEC Chairman, Business News

In an effort to tamp down concerns that her experience as a top corporate defense lawyer would color her decision-making, Mary Jo White said Tuesday t...

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Eleazar David Melendez

Critics Assail SEC's Latest Attempt To Protect Us From Trading Mayhem

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleazar David Melendez | Posted 03.12.2013 | Business
Read More: Computer-Errors, High-Frequency Trading, Computer-Meltdown, Stock Exchanges, Proposed Rules, Stock Market, Market-Structure, Computer Glitch, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Hft, Robot Trading, Business News

More than two years since the "flash crash" sent investors fleeing the stock market and nearly a year since the Facebook IPO imploded, the Securities ...

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SEC Experiments With Punishments That Actually Fit The Crime

Reuters | Posted 05.12.2013 | Business
Read More: Sec, George Canellos, Sec Punishment, Financial Reform, Financial Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Reuters, Business News

By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is experimenting with punishments tha...

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President Mitt Romney

Steven Clifford | Posted 05.11.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Mary Jo White, Sec, Lobbying, Romney, Bankers, Drones, Organizing for America, Obama, Comedy News
Steven Clifford

I knew President Romney was unlikely to champion civil liberties, but I never imagined he would claim the right to kill people he did not like. I woke up terrified. "President Romney is trying to kill me with drones," I screamed.

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Mary Jo White: Wall Street Watch Dog or Lap Dog? The CEO Pay Test

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.11.2013 | Politics
Read More: Mary Jo White, CEO Pay, Sec, Wall Street, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Regulation, SEC Chairman, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

Mary Jo White is touted as a former tough prosecutor with the ability to police Wall Street. She is at the top of her profession, with experience as a leading corporate defense attorney. And it is this very experience that raises questions as to whether she can and will do the job.

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Defending Champs Boost Tournament Hopes

AP | GARY GRAVES | Posted 03.09.2013 | Sports
Read More: John Calipari, Billy Donovan, Sec Basketball, Florida Gators, Ryan Harrow, Kentucky Wildcats, Florida Basketball, Ncaa, Kentucky, Florida, Sec, Ncaa Basketball, College Basketball, Kentucky Basketball, Video, Sports News

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Kentucky faces a difficult road toward an NCAA tournament bid, but the Wildcats rallied past No. 11 Florida 61-57 Saturday to help t...

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