Regulation

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• More talk on cheap talk

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 133
  We were not optimistic about the telecom regulators actually doing something about lowering intra-SAARC phone prices more than one year after the SAARC heads of state said it should be done. The regulators show their independence when it comes to matters such as this. But the prices came down for LK-IN calls ...
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• Dear Mandy … An Open Letter to Peter Mandelson from Dan Bull

  
  Online Journalism Blog — Authority: 631
  Dan Bull is clearly a star in the making… An open letter to Peter Mandelson regarding the newly announced Digital Economy Bill. And an interesting use of video, whatever your view. If you disapprove of the Bill, sign the petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/dont Write your own message to Lord ...
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• Walker Report Will Shake Up Non-Finance Companies Too

  
  Sterling Performance — Authority: 135
  If you think the Walker Report applies only to banks, think again. Much of what Sir David Walker is recommending today will apply to all companies tomorrow.Corporate governance codes are a reaction to crises: Cadbury produced the original rulebook after Maxwell’s collapse, Higgs revised it after Enron and Walker is ...
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• More than 1,000 bankers in the City earn over £1m a year, Sir David Walker says

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  More than 1,000 in the City earn over £1m a year, Sir David Walker said in a review that will force banks to disclose how many staff are on such pay.
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• Walker – the missed opportunity of recommendation 15

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 568
  The Walker report on corporate governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities includes the most extraordinary missed opportunity. On page 17 it has the following enigmatic paragraph: Recommendation 15 Deleted. What might it have said? What opportunity has been missed? Could it have said: All ...
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• Retro Greenspan and Buffett on inflation

  
  disinter — Authority: 417
  “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.” — Alan Greenspan “It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero ...
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• We have to stop chaps regulating chaps – or we will destroy all we value, including democracy itself

  
  Tax Research UK — Authority: 568
  The world of banking has won two more victories over the rest of society. The challenge to its right to charge excessive fees to people who make the smallest error in running their bank accounts has been overthrown by the new supreme court. This is regressive tax in all but name: it is now the poorest in our ...
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• Transparency efforts for bankers bonuses

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 142
  Guardian.co.uk: Banks forced to reveal numbers of millionaire staff, Nov. 26, 2009 Banks will be forced to reveal how many of their employees earn more than £1m a year under new laws expected to show that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of City bankers are made millionaires each year. But in introducing legislation ...
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• Royal Family of Hawaii Honors Santa Cruz for its Surfing Roots

  
  California Beaches Blog — Authority: 148
  A recent news story from the San Jose Mercury News reported that the royal family of Hawaii boosted Santa Cruz’s claim as the real Surf City. The  City of Santa Cruz was presented with a bronze plaque honoring three island princes who introduced surfing to the mainland when they paddled out at the San Lorenzo River ...
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• Thirty Years and Counting : Radioactive News from Three Mile Island

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 552
  Three Mile Island. Graphic from The Infrastructurist.The new nuke media machine:Fluff, lies and radiation from TMIBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 25, 2009Yet another "perfectly safe" release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another puff of hype about alleged "green" support for new reactors.The ...
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• Fed Tightens Regulations On Its Regional Directors

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  In response to criticism, The Federal Reserve closed a loophole that allowed a director at Goldman Sachs to be a director of the New York Fed as the agency was bailing out Wall Street.
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• >>Big Banks fighting congressional efforts to reign them in

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 143
  Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers – washingtonpost.com This time last year We the Tax Payers bailed out the big banks   because they were on the brink of going broke due to their playing with unsafe, unsound and almost criminal banking schemes called derivatives.  They had a lot of help with these ...
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• Internal Governance of Firms

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 546
  Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In The Internal Governance of Firms , which was co-written with Viral Acharya and Stewart Myers , and which I recently presented at the Finance Seminar at Harvard ...
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• A controversial use of taxpayer funds

  
  Practical Ethics — Authority: 119
  The health care reform bill currently being debated in the United States has re-ignited controversy there over abortion, and in particular over the availability of federal government funding to pay for the procedure. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives...
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• Hold the Fort: Don’t Surrender So Quickly

  
  Tenth Amendment Center — Authority: 580
  by Gary Marbut New Hampshire attorney E.F. Nappen writes that the Firearms Freedom Acts being introduced and enacted in various states are subject to ” The Achilles Heels of the Firearms Freedom Act .” He argues that the inclusion of NFA (National Firearms Act) items (e.g., suppressors or short-barreled ...
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• MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Legislation Requires MFIs Under Central Bank of West African States Join Trade Associations

  
  MicroCapital.org — Authority: 146
  New legislation will require all MFIs to join national trade associations in West African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.  The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) with the assistance of Government of Luxembourg are interested in structuring the ...
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• Support Paul-Grayson AND H.R. 1207

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 583
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Rep. Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act is making progress . . . * The House version of the bill (H.R. 1207) has 313 co-sponsors * The Senate  version (H.R. 604) has 30 co-sponsors And last week, Ron Paul along with Rep. Alan Grayson introduced a version of ...
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• An Astute Translation of the Banks’ Case Against New Regulations

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 760
  The finance industry, seeming to forget that it was responsible for the economic turmoil that’s pushed unemployment above 10 percent , is lobbying furiously (and successfully ) against Democratic legislation designed to protect consumers and prevent a similar episode in the future. Yesterday, industry ...
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• The Unnecessariness of Net Neutrality Regulations

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 549
  My PFF colleague Barbara Esbin has a great piece about why “ FCC Could Mess Up Internet With ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules No One Needs ” in a USNews point/counterpoint debate with  Andrew Schwartzman of the Media Attack Access Project, who claims such rules “ Would Keep the Web Free for Speech and Trade .” ...
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• US senators ask EC to speed Oracle-Sun review

  
  Computerworld Blogs — Authority: 444
  In todays podcast : US senators ask EC to speed Oracle-Sun review; Microsofts CFO steps down; and California man pleads guilty to selling counterfeit chips to US Navy. read more
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