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Posts Tagged ‘financial regulation’

  • Senate Financial Regulation Bill: How Fast Can You Read 1,336 Pages?

    Posted March 22nd, 2010 at 11:48am in Enterprise and Free Markets 0

    At 1,336 pages, the Dodd financial services regulation bill proposal, which the Senate Banking Committee will begin to consider today, includes language that could create a permanent bank bailout. It is also filled with other significant issues, any one of which could cause serious damage to the economy or consumers by allowing bureaucrats to micromanage [...] More

  • Senate Needs Firm Assurances from Bernanke for Second Term

    Posted August 26th, 2009 at 2:10pm in Enterprise and Free Markets 3

    Yesterday, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernanke’s tenure coincided with the most chaotic and painful period in modern financial history. Bernanke has overseen a previously unimagined expansion in the range of Fed programs, and he played [...] More

  • Obama Financial Regulation Plan: Empowering Regulators, Not Consumers

    Posted June 17th, 2009 at 4:49pm in Enterprise and Free Markets 2

    After months of internal debate, President Obama today released his much-anticipated plan for reforming the nation’s financial regulatory system. The 85-page document is nothing if not comprehensive, containing a grab bag of changes covering almost every aspect of the troubled financial industry. Taken as a whole, the changes would trigger the largest increase in government [...] More

  • The Cloakroom: June 8 – June 14

    Posted June 5th, 2009 at 4:35pm in Ongoing Priorities 0

    Senate Floor · FDA Tobacco Regulation – S982 · Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan – HR2346 · Creation of a non-profit to increase tourism in the United States – S1023 Major Senate Committee Action · Foreign Relations Committee – Arms Control Nomination hearing  · Energy and Natural Resources Committee – Comprehensive Energy Policy markup House Floor · Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq [...] More

  • Bad Regulation, Not Deregulation, Caused Financial Crisis

    Posted May 18th, 2009 at 10:50am in Enterprise and Free Markets 7

    Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson writes in the New York Times: Human beings are as good at devising ex post facto explanations for big disasters as they are bad at anticipating those disasters. It is indeed impressive how rapidly the economists who failed to predict this crisis — or predicted the wrong crisis (a dollar crash) [...] More

  • Seizure Plan Seizes Up: Frank Delays Financial Institution Receivership Plan

    Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 10:01am in Enterprise and Free Markets 1

    The Obama Administration tried to portray the plan as no big deal, akin to simply filling in a loophole. The idea was to provide the FDIC with authority to seize failing “non–banK” financial institutions such as holding companies, insurance firms and hedge funds, similar to the powers they already have to take over [...] More