Deregulation

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• Letter: The Chemical Security Bill

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  To the Editor:.
  7 hours ago

• Editorial: That $35 Cup of Coffee

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The Federal Reserve Board’s new rules to protect holders of debit cards from overdraft fees are half-measures. Congress should pass bills to put the scam to rest.
  2 days ago

• Reliant announces plans for electric vehicle services in Houston

  
  TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — Authority: 473
  Reliant Energy announced on Friday an agreement with Nissan Motor Co. to install electric charging stations around Houston for plug-in electric vehicles. The announcement begins Reliants broader plans to offer services to people who buy electric vehicles, including installing plug-in sockets in home garages and ...
  2 days ago

• Native American pueblo could use some power deregulation

  
  TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — Authority: 473
  The Native American pueblo of Jemez could use some electricity deregulation. The community in New Mexico wants to build a solar plant and sell the power outside the reservation. The idea is to make some money to improve sagging infrastructure in this lovely valley of tan-colored homes with mound-shaped bread ...
  2 days ago

• Deregulation sparks row at House of Reps – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 149
  The proposed deregulation of the nation’s oil sector by the Federal Government, yesterday, created tension in the House of Representatives with the Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, cautioning members over alleged unguarded comments on the issue. Tempers also rose in the chamber over supplementary budget for the Federal ...
  3 days ago

• Here’s why oil companies are scared shitless of EO 839

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 127
  To a certain degree, Executive Order 839 questioned the lies long peddled by the oil companies and staunch defenders of neoliberalism about neoliberal free market economics. If left unchallenged, EO 839 could become a precedent in policy making: that the government, in the name of public good and welfare, could take ...
  3 days ago

• Breakingviews.com: Newfangled Bank Capital

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The warm reception for contingent capital securities — known as CoCo bonds — may encourage other banks to sell CoCos, a development that would probably please regulators.
  3 days ago

• Robert Weissman: Reflections on Glass-Steagall and Maniacal Deregulation

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 551
  Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the passage of the repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and related legislation. It is an anniversary worth noting for what it teaches us about forestalling financial crises, the consequences of maniacal deregulation, and the out-of-control political power of the megafinancial ...
  3 days ago

• Thanks Tories: Privatised British Gas Makes £560 Million Profit as Consumers Strangled

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 649
  The Tory and Labour privatised British Gas has made a cool $560 million profit this year, up by £181 million from last year, while ordinary British consumers struggle to make ends meet. Operating profits for Centrica, the FTSE listed company which owns British Gas, are in the region of £1.9 billion for this year. ...
  3 days ago

• New Rules Would Restrict Overdraft Fees on Debit Cards

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The Federal Reserve will prohibit issuers of debit cards from charging overdraft fees in many instances without the cardholder’s permission.
  3 days ago

• EFH fails to significantly cut debt in tender offer

  
  TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — Authority: 473
  Dallas power company Energy Future Holdings failed to significantly cut its debt by offering lenders pennies on the dollar to exchange their bonds. The company said Thursday that $357.5 million in debt had been tendered in an exchange offer originally designed to cut as much as $2 billion from EFHs heavy debt load. ...
  3 days ago

• Letter: Regulating Gas Drilling

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  To the Editor:.
  5 days ago

• Op-Ed Columnist: Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Maureen Dowd
  5 days ago

• Under Attack, Fed Chairman Studies Politics

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Representative Barney Frank, left, said of Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, right: “Ben Bernanke turns out to have better political instincts than anybody thought.”
  5 days ago

• The MBA: Vehicle Of Infection

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  In the American model, capitalism is an essential engine that equally supports societal needs and private interest. There is an implied capitalist compact that defines a balance between public interest and private interest that is consistent with the success and long term survival of both personal and public needs and ...
  5 days ago

• Deep Vein Thrombosis…an In Flight Risk

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  DVT?an in flight riskby Cathy GatsonPlanning to do some long distance traveling this summer be it train, plane or automobile?here is some important information to pack with you to avoid this trip from being your last leg.WHAT IS IT?DVT or Deep Vein Thrombosis is a blood clot that develops in the deep vein of the [...]
  5 days ago

• Dodd Offers Senate Plan for Financial Overhaul

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The plan would dramatically change the regulatory system by consolidating bank agencies, creating a consumer financial protection agency and imposing new restraints on exotic financial instruments.
  5 days ago

• A Squeeze on Customers Ahead of New Rules

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Senator Christopher J. Dodd at a hearing in September. He is pushing legislation that would freeze interest rates on existing balances until the new credit card law takes effect next year.
  6 days ago

• Financial Regulations Chief Chides British Banks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Executives failed to accept responsibility for the financial crisis and need to change their behavior, the head of the Financial Services Authority said.
  6 days ago

• National Disquiet: A Beheading In Sulu, A Standoff Over LPG, And Oil Supplies Dwindling (Retitled, Updated)

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Filipinos are being held hostage by two totally unrelated crises: the demonic Moro rebels holding court in the jungle fastnesses of Jolo, where they’ve just beheaded a hapless school principal, and the face-off between LPG retailers and  oil companies battling Malacanang’s order putting price caps on petroleum ...
  1 week ago

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