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Bill Supposed To Tighten Rules On Ratings Agencies Has Big Loopholes

McClatchy | Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

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A key House of Representatives committee is set to vote soon on legislation that would overhaul financial regulation and produce greater transparency ...

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President Obama Takes On Wall Street In New York City Fundraiser

thehill.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few." The audience included me...

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Michael Hirsh: Barney Frank's Derivatives Bill "Too Hard To Understand"

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

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Thanks to weeks of intense pressure from Wall Street banks and their customers in corporate America, the bill that was approved on Thursday by Rep. Ba...

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Ryan Grim

Dem Infighting Over Wall Street Regulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan pushed back against her fellow Democrat, Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), on Wednesday, sending a letter (PDF) oppos...

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If You're A Bull, What Do You Buy?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

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Dan Dorfman

Keeping in mind that the market has already ballooned some 50% in the past seven months -- meaning you just could be late to the party -- what do you buy?

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Blue Dogs Aim To Scrap Obama's Financial Product Safety Commission

Politico | Victoria McGrane | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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Blue Dogs and other conservative Democrats -- uneasy with a key element of President Barack Obama's plan to regulate Wall Street -- are rallying aroun...

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Death Panels for Your Car Loan, and Other Distortions Sinking the President's Financial Reform Plan

Howard Glaser | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Wall Street Regulation, Obama Financial Reform, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Business News
Howard Glaser

Without a sustained effort, we will likely end 2009 with the same system of financial regulation that suffered near catastrophic failure -- and that is in nobody's best interest.

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Has Health Care Killed Regulatory Reform?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business

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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.

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Buyer Beware: Bankers Selling Administration on Watered-Down Financial Regulation

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

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Louise Marie Roth

It seems good that taxpayers aren't bankrolling the Wall Street giants anymore, but now they aren't accountable either. The only way to make them accountable is to regulate them effectively.

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Obama's Financial Reforms: 8 Reasons It May Not Work

baselinescenario.com | Simon Johnson | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

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What is the essence of the problem with our financial system -- what brought us into deep crisis, what scared us most in September/October of last yea...

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Michael Lewis Attacks Goldman Sachs, Wall St.'s Political Influence (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan MCCarthy | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

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Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker appeared in front of Hudson Union Society earlier this month. He spoke for about an hour, and ...

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Obama's Financial Reforms: 5 Things You Need To Know (SLIDESHOW)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

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President Barack Obama announced sweeping new reforms for the financial industry today. The announcement had long-been anticipated by Wall Street and ...

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Wall Street Reform: Regulators and Lawmakers Prepare for Turf War

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business

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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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Can We Trust Government to Get Regulation Right?

Jamie Court | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business

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Jamie Court

President Obama's SEC and entire regulatory structure needs to be far better. Consumers cannot wait.

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The New Accountability in Governance

Roger Fransecky | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

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Roger Fransecky

It's time for boards of directors and CEOs to seriously examine their governance practices -- before an angry crowd of citizens calls for their heads

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

Jay Mandle | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

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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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The Second Debate Revealed a Fatal Flaw in McCain's Candidacy

Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

It's easy to take a position in a campaign. But the promises are empty if the candidate has a record opposing those very positions.

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Why I Won't Shed Tears For Wall Street

Robert Reed | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

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Robert Reed

How many companies have been damaged in the name of maximizing shareholder value? How many unnecessary mergers, spin-offs and other dumb deals were spawned just to give the stock a jolt? How many jobs and benefits were cut because Wall Street said that was an easy path to operating "efficiencies" and greater short-term returns?

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It's Time To Re-regulate Business

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 08.12.2008 | Business

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Hale

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

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Paulson's Financial Markets Reform Will Do Little For Current Crisis

McClatchy Newspapers | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 04.07.2008 | Business

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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson makes public on Monday a new blueprint for regulation of the turbulent financial markets, one that has plenty to do w...

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Bush Administration To Unveil Broadest Overhaul Of Wall Street Regulation Since Great Depression

New York Times | By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ and FLOYD NORRIS | Posted 04.06.2008 | Business

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The Bush administration is proposing the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression. But the plan, to be unveiled on Monda...

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Obama Calls Wall Street Plan "Inadequate"

Wall Street Journal | Posted 04.06.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama described the Bush administration's sweeping changes to financial market regulation as "inadequate" on Saturday. While noting that ...

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Congress And Bush Administration At Odds Over Regulating Wall Street

New York Times | By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 03.30.2008 | Business

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As Congress and the Bush administration struggle to contain the housing and credit crises -- and prevent more Wall Street firms from collapsing as Bea...

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