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Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

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Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

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Robert Khuzami: SEC Prosecutor Is Wall Street's Latest Enforcer

Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Khuzami, Securities Exchange Commission, Sec, Raj Rajaratnam, Business News

Wall Street's wrongdoers may have officially met their match. After less than six months on the job, Robert Khuzami, the newly appointed top prosecuto...

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Barry Ritholtz: Give The SEC Teeth

The Big Picture | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Barry Rithholtz, David Kotz, The Big Picture, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Securities Exchange Commission, Sec, Business News

By Barry Ritholtz Note: this post also appeared on Ritholtz's blog, The Big Picture. The problems at the SEC were decades in the making. The a...

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Richard Cantor: Moody's Exec Denies Claims Of Inflated Ratings

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Edolphus Towns, Moody's Congressional Hearing, Sec, Eric-Kolchinsky, Securities Exchange Commission, Credti Rating Agencies, Eric Cantor, Moody's, Business News

WASHINGTON — A key House lawmaker wants to make credit rating agencies – widely criticized for failing to give investors adequate warning ...

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Credit Rating Agencies: New Rules Proposed By SEC

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Flash Trading, Hedge Funds, Mary Schapiro, Flash Stock Orders, Flash Orders, Securities Exchange Commission, Flash Orders Ban, Business News

WASHINGTON — Regulators on Thursday proposed rules designed to stem conflicts of interest and provide more transparency for credit rating compan...

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Judge Overturns Bank Of America-SEC Settlement Over Merrill Bonuses

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — A federal judge on Monday rejected a $33 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bank of America Corp.,...

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Madoff Report Indicted Entire Regulatory System: Newsweek

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Report, Mary Schapiro, Ponzi Scheme, Sec, Securities Exchange Commission, Michael Hirsh, Business News

In the days immediately after Bernie Madoff's arrest, some enforcement experts I talked to speculated that the errant financier might have been an hon...

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Obama Proposes New Derivatives Rules

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Derivatives, Over-the-Counter Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, Commidity Futures Trading Commission, Securities Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Tuesday sent Congress legislation seeking to impose broad new oversight on derivatives, the complex fin...

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Is The SEC Tough Enough?

AP | RACHEL BECK | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Hank Greenberg, General Electric, Bank of America, Mary Schapiro, Securities Exchange Commission, Business News

NEW YORK — The government appears to be getting tough on corporate shenanigans, securing $83 million in fines last week from Bank of America and...

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Madoff Scald: SEC Inspector-General Meets With Fraudster

Jun. 18, 2009 | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

Read More: David Kotz, Sec, SEC Inspector-General, Madoff, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Securities Exchange Commission, Madoff Scandal, Business News

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Admitted fraudster Bernard Madoff, the mastermind of history's biggest Ponzi scheme, had a three-hour meeting with the Securities an...

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Angelo Mozilo Fraud Charges: SEC Charges Former Countrywide CEO

AP | MARCY GORDON and GREG RISLING | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading, Countrywide Ceo, Countrywide Financial, Sec, Securities Exchange Commission, Angelo Mozilo, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive of fallen mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Co...

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Obama Near Proposal To Revamp Financial Regulations

nytimes.com | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will soon propose a comprehensive plan to expand the authority of the government to seize large troubled compan...

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The Post-Madoff, Post-TARP Future of Financial Regulation

Jay Mandle | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Sec, Wall Street Regulation, Financial Meltdown, Mary Schapiro, Financial Crisis, Treasury, Securities Exchange Commission, Financial Regulation, Politics News
Jay Mandle

In this age of deregulation, it's been unfashionable to regulate even such things as power plants like public utilities, let alone financial markets. But it's time for that sort of regulation to come back into style.

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