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Systemic Risk Regulator

DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Wall Street Bailout, The Great Depression, Liquidity, Financial Reform, Dark Pools, Innovation, S&P 500, Algorithm, Financial Meltdown, Finance, Algo Trading, S&P 500 Futures Trading, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Technology, Liquidity Crisis, Financial Regulation, High-Frequency Trading, European Union, Euro, Dow Jones, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Systems Thinking, FInancial Markets, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Systemic Risk Regulator, Europe, Systemic Risk, S&P, High-Frequency-Algorithmic-Trading, Systemic-Crisis, Nasdaq, Regulators, Stock Market Crash, Synthetics, New York Stock Exchange, Casinos, Computer Models, Nyse, Derivatives, Stock Market, Casino Trades, New York, Casino, Volume Trading, Human Intervention, Proprietary Trading, Data, Illiquidity, Bugs, Data Center, Proprietary Trading Systems, Trade, Speed-Traders, Flash Crash, High-Speed-Trading, Wall-Street-Speed-Traders, Electronic-Exchange, Electronic-Stock-Exchanges, Banks, The Financial Fix, Shadow Banking, Shadow Trading, Business News
DK Matai

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Placing Our Faith in Economic Oracles

Tony Blankley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tony Blankley, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Systemic Risk Regulator, Systemic Risk, Financial Regulation, Business News
Tony Blankley

In the end, the call for a systemic-risk regulator is yet another futile expression of faith in the power of government to out-think the markets. It is just another foolish bet.

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Shahien Nasiripour

RT @huffbusiness New "Too Big To Fail" Bill Gives Feds Power To Undo Dangerous Derivatives Contracts

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Fdic, Derivatives, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Aig, Credit Default Swaps, Michael Krimminger, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Tbtf, Lehman Brothers, Isda, Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk Regulator, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Systemic Risk, Business News

The "Too Big To Fail" legislation currently being debated by a House committee has been widely criticized as toothless. But one provision gives the fe...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Systemic Risk Panel Would Lack Independence; Treasury Secretary Would Call The Shots

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Financial Crisis, White House, Treasury Department, Financial Reform, Barney Frank, Keith Ellison, Barack Obama, Consumer Federation of America, Tim Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Systemic Risk Regulator, Systemic Risk, Financial Regulatory Overhaul, Financial Regulation, Business News

If the White House and congressional leaders get their way, the vaunted new oversight council charged with overseeing systemic risk in the financial m...

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Shahien Nasiripour

House Panel May Keep Public In The Dark About Emerging Threats To Financial System

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tbtf, Financial Reform, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Mel Watt, Systemic Risk Regulator, Financial Stability, Systemic Risk, Gregory Meeks, Financial Regulation, Business News

Members of Congress and the general public may not be told of "potential emerging threats to the stability of the financial system," thanks to a Thurs...

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Wall Street Reform: Regulators and Lawmakers Prepare for Turf War

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Congressional Oversight, Regulatory Reform, Systemic Risk Regulator, Wall Street Regulation, Tim Geithner, Financial Regulation, Sec, Business News
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.

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Stop the Financial Services "Super Czar" (Updated)

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Don McNay

There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.

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