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• Congress Threatens Fed Oversight, Markets Watch Warily

  
  Money & Politics - BusinessWeek — Authority: 121
  On Capitol Hill, its almost like open season on the Federal Reserve: Lawmakers are threatening to diminish its regulatory powers, lay bare its books, and let the government pick more of the top officials now named by boards dominated by bankers and corporate executives. Critics worry the proposals could drive down the ...
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• Do Envious CEOs Cause Merger Waves?

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 546
  This post comes to us from Anand Goel , Assistant Professor of Finance at DePaul University, and Anjan Thakor , the John E. Simon Professor of Finance and a Senior Associate Dean at Washington University in St. Louis. In our paper, Do Envious CEOs Cause Merger Waves? , which was recently accepted for ...
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• Communications with Financial Analysts and Related Disclosure Issues

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 546
  (Editor’s Note: This post is an abridged version of a Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP client memorandum, excluding footnotes; the complete memorandum is available here .) Securities analysts play a key role in securities markets, and publicly held companies as a matter of market practice regularly ...
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• Wall Street owes the administration a really nice Christmas card

  
  Ezra Klein — Authority: 809
  Things are getting ugly as Congress considers financial reform. Legislators dont like the (entirely accurate) perception that the banks got a sweetheart deal last fall. The public wants someone to lose a pound of flesh over what happened to the economy, and since Tim Geithner didnt take it from the banks, some in ...
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• Regulation and Class Actions

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 546
  This post comes to us from Eric Helland of Claremont McKenna College and Jonathan Klick of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Regulation and litigation do not occur in isolation. In almost every case of a harm which leads to litigation some regulatory agency had initially monitored the activity that ...
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• Standing up to Wall Street in Indianapolis

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 127
  Activists in Indianapolis, Indiana rallied in front of Chase Bank today to call for financial reform that puts people before Wall Street profits. After the event, they took their message to the nearby local office of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) (who, according to our new report , has received $345,420 in donations from ...
  5 days ago

• More on Consumer Protection from Costco Connection

  
  Mike Hammock's Blog — Authority: 104
  Every month Costco publishes a magazine called Costco Connection. Each issue contains a debate between to experts on some topic of general interest. Most are dull--should kids be spanked, do timesaving devices really save time, etc. Some topics are interesting, however. For example, I commented on an illuminating ...
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• Consumer Reports Lectures Me on Credit Card Regulation

  
  Mike Hammock's Blog — Authority: 104
  I have a subscription to the Consumer Reports website because of the wealth of product information it contains. Occasionally, however, Consumer Reports takes positions on policies, and I nearly always disagree with them (another example: Consumers Union supports higher CAFE standards ; I do not, as a higher gasoline ...
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• Too Big to Save: How to Fix the US Financial System

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 546
  This post is a review of Robert Pozen’s recent book, “Too Big to Save: How to Fix the US Financial System” by Sean Cameron, MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. Bob Pozen’s book, Too Big to Save: How to Fix the US Financial System is one of the most important books on financial reform written to ...
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• New Lib Dem proposals – tax prudent banks to shore up risky ones

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 126
  I welcome Vince Cable’s repudiation of the Tobin tax but, instead, he has proposed a tax on bank profits to help provide a sort of insurance premium to pay for the losses banks impose on the taxpayer when they go bust. It would be better to have other reforms to ensure that a “no bail out” pledge can be made ...
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• Derivatives Regulation

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 122
  Senate Banking Committee Chair Sen. Dodd is developing one bill for regulation of the financial sector.  The Obama Administration has, of course, made various proposals for regulation.  Now two House Democrats--Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank and Agriculture Committee Chair Collin Peterson --are ...
  6 days ago

• Dodd Pursues Sweeping Financial Regulatory Changes

  
  Main Street — Authority: 475
  A year ago Wall Street’s financial rupture sent the economy hurtling into a massive crisis, crushing tens of millions of Americans in an avalanche of unemployment, underemployment, home foreclosures, reduced incomes and lost benefits. That financial rupture was caused by a combination of rapacious, mindless greed ...
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• Why Do We Need a Multi-Agency Financial Fraud Task Force?

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 480
  Should we take heart that the Obama administration is creating a multi-agency Financial Fraud Task Force? While there is no doubt there are massive frauds in the system, the mere creation of a task force does not necessarily mean the frauds will be rooted out. Why? If the agencies involved in the task force are ...
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• Cloudy, with a chance of stupid

  
  The Desolation Angel - An Idiot's Ravings at the Ragged Edge of the American Century — Authority: 419
  Thursday Nov. 19th, 2009 . . . . . "Theres gonna be one speed, mine.. . . .If you cant keep up, dont step up . Youll just die" - Riddick (Vin Diesel) . . . .Lets start ...
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• Down from the valley and up from the hill

  
  The Desolation Angel - An Idiot's Ravings at the Ragged Edge of the American Century — Authority: 419
  Wednesday November 18, 2009 . . . . . . And on and on it goes. . . . .. . .If youre reading this on the Facebook Notes page, I recommend that you switch to the external site, The Desolation Angel, to catch the videos embedded here today. . . . . . . I was reflecting this evening on the number of losses ...
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• Good News On The Regulatory Front

  
  Guzzo The Contrarian — Authority: 116
  The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has been given the go ahead from the SEC to make it’s BrokerCheck service records of final regulatory actions against brokers permanently available to the public.Previously, a broker’s record generally becomes unavailable to the public two years after he or she ...
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• A Better Way to Regulate Financial Markets

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 493
  From sometime D&S author Thomas Palley, in the Financial Times s Economists Forum series : A better way to regulate financial markets: Asset based reserve requirements By Thomas Palley | November 10, 2009 There is widespread recognition that the financial crisis which triggered the Great Recession was ...
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• Oh, boy, did you hear that one?

  
  The Desolation Angel - An Idiot's Ravings at the Ragged Edge of the American Century — Authority: 419
  Tuesday November 17, 2009 . . . . . OK, here we go, off and running right away . . . . I am assuming that most of you are literate and bright enough to know and understand Godwins Law , a long standing law of logic, (since the days of Usenet) on bulletin boards, threads and forums. . . . .A quick ...
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• Public Citizen rallies against the banksters

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 127
  What a perfect day for a protest! Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman and SEIU’s Andy Stern rallied the crowd in front of the Capitol Hill headquarters of Goldman Sachs. Our message? Break up the banks. From Politico : Several speakers and numerous signs at the protest called for Congress to break up the “too ...
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• The Dodd Bill: CoCo’s? Fine; Hobble the Fed? Don’t Do It.

  
  Jeff Frankels Weblog — Authority: 507
  The National Journal asks views on a recent proposal for financial reform:    “The Dodd bill on financial regulatory reform embraces a supposed solution to the ‘Too Big To Fail’ conundrum: Contingent Convertible Bonds, or CoCos, which turn into equity once a bank’s capital falls below a certain ...
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