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• in Politics
  More of the Same: Brookings Spews Regulation Rhetoric on Capitol Hill
  Regulatory Rhetoric is Here to Stay
  by kapitalcon / on Jun 21, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “financial regulation”

 

• SIFMA Hires Former Sen. Gregg

  
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  Former Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) was tapped Monday to head the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
  3 days ago

• Bernanke Warns of Continued Financial Vulnerabilities

  
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  The U.S. financial system still faces a number of vulnerabilities five years after the onset of the financial crisis, pushing regulators to broaden their oversight over all facets of financial markets and firms, Fed Chairman Bernanke said.
  1 week ago

• Paul Ryan Offers Strong Endorsement For New Financial Rule To Rein In Risky Trading

  
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  ELKHORN WI — At a Wisconsin town hall last week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) offered his strongest endorsement yet of a key financial reform generally pushed by Democratic lawmakers. In the past, Ryan held a more lukewarm position on the Volcker Rule, where he endorsed the concept in theory but not in name. By ...
  2 weeks ago

• New SEC Chairman, Mary Jo White, Speaks To Cross-Border Financial Regulation

  
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  Regulatory globalization is now a continuous and ongoing process, and one that has gotten much more intensive and complex. We often find ourselves sailing in previously uncharted waters. Until recently, for example, the multi-trillion dollar derivatives market was largely unregulated.  In the United States, the SEC ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Changing Landscape of the CFTC’s Enforcement Actions

  
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  Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from John H. Sturc , partner and co-chair of the Securities Enforcement Practice Group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and is based on a Gibson Dunn alert by Mr. Sturc and Jeffrey L. Steiner ; the full text, including footnotes, is available here . During the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Lessons of the North Atlantic Crisis for Economic Theory and Policy

  
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  Guest post by:  Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University, New York, and co-host of the Conference on  Rethinking Macro Policy II: First Steps and Early Lessons In analyzing the most recent financial crisis, we can benefit somewhat from the misfortune of recent decades. The approximately 100 crises that have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Preventing The Next Catastrophe: Where Do We Stand?

  
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  Guest post by David Romer University of California, Berkeley, and co-host of Rethinking Macro II: First Steps and Early Lessons As I listened to the presentations and discussions, I found myself thinking about the conference from two perspectives. One is intellectual: Are we asking provocative questions? Are ...
  2 weeks ago

• FSOC Designation: Consequences for Nonbank SIFIS

  
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  Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Arthur S. Long , partner and member of the financial institutions and securities regulation practice groups at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. This post is based on a Gibson Dunn memorandum by Mr. Long, Alexander G. Acree , Kimble C. Cannon , C.F. Muckenfuss III , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy

  
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  By Olivier Blanchard The IMF has just hosted a second conference devoted to rethinking macroeconomic policy in the wake of the crisis. After two days of fascinating presentations and discussions, I am certain of one thing:  this is unlikely to be our last conference on the subject. Rethinking and reforms are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jeff Sachs UNLOADS on Wall St., D.C, & Obama

  
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  If anybody were to think that the fight for decency and justice in our markets, our nation’s capital, and throughout our land were to have run its course . . .  well think again. In a volley of invectives not often seen in the genteel world of liberal academia, Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs recently ...
  3 weeks ago

• Board Directors Trading as Principals of Investment Firms: A Recipe for Insider-Trading?

  
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  The U.S. Government designed the 10b5-1 plan so a company’s executives could lay out future trades involving the company’s stock at set prices or on set dates so as to obviate any potential charges of insider trading. The government’s intent was not that massive holdings would be dumped by means of the plan, or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lawmakers Take On ‘Too Big To Fail’ Banks In Bipartisan Bill

  
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  Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter (R) Wednesday introduced legislation aimed at reining in “too big to fail” megabanks by imposing strict capital requirements and preventing them from structuring themselves to elude existing regulations. The largest Wall Street banks are even bigger ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dismantling Large Bank Holding Companies

  
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  Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Tamar Frankel , Professor of Law at Boston University Law School. Mammoth bank holding companies (BHCs) have contributed to the 2008 crisis. Their “contribution” may stem from their structure. Most BHCs are not banks but “financial malls,” of ...
  4 weeks ago

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