Category: Market Regulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
It's Time to Rally for Financial Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
To paraphrase Marat-Sade: ‘the Election came, and the election went, and unrest turned back into discontent.’
The Dems lost two Governors, one an unpopular former high honcho at Goldman Sachs, not exactly a populist crusader, and picked up one house seat in a Congressional District no oever heard about before.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Regulatory Reforms of Systemically Important Too Big To Fail Financial Institutions / Politics / Market Regulation
By: RGE_Monitor
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Blueprint for Battling Credit Default Swaps and Avoid Another Financial Crash / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mervyn King think that banks that are considered “too big to fail” should be broken up. The House Financial Services Committee is drafting a bill that will make banks pay for other banks’ bankruptcies.
Friday, October 23, 2009
CMKX Shareholders Coalition for Justice announces the commencement of legal action against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) / Companies / Market Regulation
By: Submissions
The CMKX Shareholders Coalition for Justice announces the commencement of legal action against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in both Canada and the United States. The action follows complaints filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Nevada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, Canada. These complaints and the accompanying evidence allege that the SEC facilitated the counterfeiting of multi-millions of publicly traded stock shares by brokerage firms, many of which were implicated in Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) felony crimes including counterfeiting and money laundering with organized crime.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Systemic Risk of Financial Collapse Resulting in Fuzzy Regulatory Oversight / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Stephen_Mauzy
"Systemic risk" is the new financial term du jour. I suppose that's good news for all of us in the finance biz. The previous term du jour, "moral hazard," had months ago been talked, debated, lectured, explained, and milked to death. I suspect that a few months hence, systemic risk — the risk of total financial system or market collapse — will have suffered a similar fate.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Mary Schipari Put In Charge: Now The SEC Will Save America. Just Hurry Up Please! / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_Butter
Big picture, the status right now is that The Fed has pledged to find enough money to keep what they consider to be enough banks in the USA working; in order for the economy to work. For anyone who wants to know where they will find the money (and did), or how much they will eventually need, well the simple answer is, "Don't ask"!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Lord Turner Fights to Save the Incompetent FSA Banking System Regulator / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Lord Turner, the ex-banker head of the FSA banking system regulator that repeatedly failed to regulate the UK banking sector over the boom and bust years that resulted in a near catastrophic collapse of the UK banking system requiring the tax payer to underwrite the whole banking system to the tune of £1.5 trillion and counting, today stepped forward with strong words criticising the financial sector as well as calling on for a new tax
on transactions to prevent bonus abuse that allowed bank executives and boards to turn the institutions they worked for into hollow shells, after having banked billions in bonuses on fictitious mark to market profits.
Friday, August 21, 2009
SEC On Track To Adopt IVS: By-passing FASB, BIS, Congress And The Treasury? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_Butter
Tyler Durden can always be counted on to be first off the block with a juicy bit of news, so it was no surprise that he broke the story about SEC's recent effort to re-start the job that they apparently abandoned some-time in mid 2000, namely protecting investors who put their money into entities they regulate from fraud (http://seekingalpha.com/article/157053-sec-to-demand-loan-loss-clarity-in-md-a-disclosure).
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Free Market as Regulator / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Since the bailouts last fall, lawmakers have been behaving as quasi-owners of the bailed-out banks and businesses, leading to calls for increased regulation of executive compensation and other wasteful expenditures. We have heard much about bonuses and executive pay packages that sound more like lottery winnings than an honest salary.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Madmen and Government Regulations / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: MISES
Jeffrey Tucker writes: The AMC's Madmen, themed around New York advertising executives in the 1960s, captivates viewers for its plots, fashions, shocking levels of political incorrectness, and, most of all, because of the way its draws viewers so closely into a world of the early 1960s that they never knew.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The High Cost of Regulation: How the SEC Plans to Untangle Your Assets / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Paul_Petillo
By now, the Madoff name, synonymous with theft and deceit on a scale so grand that Ponzi would be envious, is known worldwide. Although his actions (and those of his cohorts) did not trickle down to the vast majority of Americans, watching well-to-do people trust vast amounts of money to one person’s assurance and phony returns did not go unnoticed.
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Monday, July 06, 2009
The SEC Takes Its Cues from… Wall Street? / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Graham_Summers
Originally today’s essay was going to counter the most common inflationists’ arguments. However, over the weekend the SEC announced it is considering reinstating rules that make it more difficult to go short in the market. This move warrants immediate attention for a number of reasons, namely:
Monday, June 29, 2009
Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 Will Lead to Capital Flight / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration's health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This reality check may have given us a temporary reprieve on this particular disastrous policy, however an equally disastrous energy policy reared its ugly head on Capitol Hill last week.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Is Obama Pushing Us Toward State Controlled Capitalism? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: With its regulatory overhaul of the U.S. financial system, the Obama administration has granted the federal government new powers to take over systemically important businesses, but has done so in a way that may well mask a potentially dangerous drift toward American state capitalism.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wall Street Versus Main Street! / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Sy_Harding
The Administration has provided Congress with a proposed overhaul of financial industry regulations that is sweeping in its coverage to say the least, the most serious attempt to protect investors since the 1930’s, but guaranteed to have Wall Street and its powerful friends taking up arms against it.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Obama Regulatory Reforms to Establish Banking Dictatorship / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Global_Research
Paul Joseph Watson writes: President Obama’s plan to give the privately-owned and unaccountable Federal Reserve complete regulatory oversight across the entire U.S. economy, which is likely to be enacted before the end of the year, will officially herald the beginning of a new form of government in the United States - an ultra-powerful banking dictatorship controlled by a small gaggle of shadowy and corrupt elitists.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Obama's Financial Reforms A Stealth Scheme for Global Monetary Control / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Stephen_Lendman
When politicians plan reform, it's wise to be skeptical and hold on to your wallets. So fixing the economy by bailing out Wall Street is wrecking it, and Obama's proposed health care reform taxes more, provides less, places profits above human need, avoids the most vital solutions, and leaves a broken system in place.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Obama Capitulates to Wall Street, No Real Financial System Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Global_Research
Prof. Michael Hudson writes: The story is worse than just “Pres. Obama labored, and brought forth a mouse.” He is morphing into Joe Lieberman in reaching across the aisle for Republican support – and no doubt future campaign contributions from the financial sector. There also is a touch of Boris Yeltsin in sponsoring a financial “reform” disturbingly similar to what advisor Larry Summers backed in Russia – relinquishing government power to a banking elite (the notorious “Seven Bankers” in post-Soviet Russia). The Financial Regulatory Reform proposal promotes Wall Street’s “product,” debt creation, at the expense of the economy at large, and lets financial chieftains continue to self-regulate the debt industry – and by the way, to keep all their gains from the past decade’s worth of fraudulent lending, scot-free.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Obama Financial Reforms, On The Road To Change Or Perdition? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Submissions
Danny Schechter writes: Stabilizing A Flawed System is Not The Same As Restructuring Or Remaking It
A recent study cited by the Editor of the Financial Times argues that we are now in a Depression although no one wants to use the term or face the music.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
The Deep End of a Dark Pool / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Paul_Petillo
There was some speculation that the financial markets in this country would suddenly stagnate after the most recent downturn. The innovation of products that used an ever-increasing and more complicated methodology to make money would stop, paving the way for dull and boring, over-regulated markets that offered so much oversight as to slow the growth of the country. To hear some Wall Streeters talk, the end of an era was upon us.