Last week's stock market decline had to do with more than President Obama's proposed bank regulations, but even if his proposal was the entire cause of the sell-off, that doesn't mean his ideas are wrong. Anybody remember the banks? They're the guys who brought on the Great Recession. No doubt, the market's fall was linked at least in part to Obama's request that Congress restrict how large big banks can be, and also to end some of the risky trading that large financial companies have recently used to bolster their bottom lines. If banks' growth is restricted, investors might, indeed, look elsewhere for profits.
Some of Obama's appointees have a history as ardent advocates for financial crooks and active foes of regulation. Because neither die Obama team nor its proposed reforms pack die requisite punch, Black predicts, "There will be far more catastrophic losses." A precedent exists: asimilar crisis a decade ago involving Long-Term Capital Management a Connecticut hedge fund diat included two Nobel Prize-winningeconomists and a few ace traders from Wall Street and had bet on bond spreads in Russia Italy, and Latin America The outfit started well, but then crashed and dug a trillion-dollar hole that was considered dangerous to the entire system at die time.
Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) transferred rulemaking authority for a number of consumer financial protection laws from seven Federal agencies to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau) as of July 21, 2011. The Bureau is in the process of republishing the regulations implementing those laws with technical and conforming changes to reflect the transfer of authority and certain other changes made by the Dodd-Frank Act. In light of the transfer of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System's (Board's) rulemaking authority for the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) to the Bureau, the Bureau is publishing for public comment an interim final rule establishing a new Regulation E (Electronic Fund Transfers). This...
... (2) A written history of the consumer's account transactions that is pro...
Step by step, President Obama is building a record of major legislation that's sure to make a mark on history. The most sweeping financial regulation since the Great Depression. A vast expansion of health care, which Democrats had wanted for more than six decades. An $862 billion stimulus package that locked in long-sought Democratic priorities.
Congress founded the SEC in 1934 in the wake of the greatest financial collapse in history. More than seventy years later, the SEC, charged by Congress with a mandate to preserve the national public interest through fair and honest markets, remains a critical force in policing US markets. But while the scope and authority of the SEC's power has expanded over time, so too have the crimes it seeks to prevent. To prevent conmen from avoiding SEC jurisdiction and capitalizing on self-interested local regulation in offshore financial centers, this note encourages Congress to grant the SEC the authority to initiate investigations on foreign soil when it perceives a substantial threat to investors in the US. This note will apply the SEC's expanded jurisdiction to three case studies to demonstr...
[Joseph Schwartz] calls for a public philosophy centered on the concept of "the solidarity of citizens," meaning "the moral commitment to the equal worth of persons and to the equal potential of human beings to freely develop and pursue their life plans," based on a sense of shared fate. The story of increasing inequality, he proposes, can be understood as the story of eroding social solidarity: "a political majority no longer exists in favor of social equality" as it did - however unevenly and inconsistently - in the New Deal and Great Society eras. To rebuild a governing majority committed to social equality means to revive Americans' commitment to the solidarity of citizens. The most exciting chapters of this book, thus, are those where Schwartz develops this idea of solidarity and u...
... through which to reinterpret the recent history of economic and financial regulation, social welfa...
Multiple-station, or group, ownership is a long established characteristic of broadcasting in the United States. It exists whenever a single organization owns more than one station or one medium. Through the efficiencies of operation of multiple outlets, or economies of scale, group media companies usually enjoy financial benefits that are not available to single medium operators. Thus, a long-term trend toward consolidation has prevailed throughout the history of the radio broadcasting industry. Television owners quickly adopted the practice, which has expanded steadily, as regulations have permitted ever since. The three forms of multiple ownership - Group ownership, Duopoly ownership, and Cross-media ownership are analyzed in this study. Particularly, this study provides (1) a statis...
This paper examines the securities activities of banks in Israel. The relatively new legislation dealing with this aspect - Regulation of Investment Advice and Investment Portfolio Management Law - was enacted in 1995 as a lesson learned from the Share Regulation Affair of October 1983. In many ways in economic history, 1983 was for Israel what 1929 was for the US. Israel's episode is compared with the US episode and the comparison is used to review the adequacy of the Israeli legislative response to the Crisis of 1983. The Law was enacted, primarily, based on American experience and legislation. The legislation enacted in both countries is compared. To better understand the differences, the unique financial market in Israel is introduced. The recent legislative development in the US (i...
As history continues to repeat itself, the financial markets are still being faced with increased government regulation in response to the global financial crisis. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Act) continues to have an impact on virtually every financial institution and commercial company that operates in the US, and many that operate beyond US borders. Many more private entities are now subject to regulation, as a portion of the Act eliminates the private adviser exemption previously allowed under the Investment Advisers Act. Thus, a significant number of previously non-regulated investment advisers are required to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or the states in which they do business. Originally, the SEC's registrat...
Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Secretary Thomas E. Perez last week announced the first "foreclosure rescue scam" conviction in Maryland's history. The case was investigated by DLLR's Financial Regulation Division and prosecuted by the Prince George's County State's Attorney's Office. Perver Lee Taylor found a victim who was facing financial hardship and convinced her to unknowingly transfer ownership of her home. DLLR investigators uncovered a scheme to steal the equity in her home, evict her and sell the property.
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