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Gaps and weaknesses in the supervision and regulation of financial firms presented challenges to out government's ability to monitor, prevent, or address risks as they built up in the system. No regulator saw its job as protecting the economy and financial system as a whole. I have to disagree with the last sentence. The Fed has always seen this as its job. It did when I worked there, and it did both before and during the crisis. I also disagree with the tone of the first sentence, which makes it sound as though the problems were caused by unregulated firms. In my view, the problems were poor mortgage underwriting ...
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Details have dribbled out for weeks, but around the lunch hour Wednesday, President Barack Obama will reveal just what he sees as fundamental reform of financial regulation. Below, a preview courtesy of one of those elusive senior administration officials, plus some others familiar with aspects of the administration’s plans. First, though, how soon does the administration expect to do this? Soon. “We don’t think the country can afford to wait, and the leadership in the Senate and the House have made it clear they agree,” the official said. “We’re going to work very, very hard to get this done ...
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Eigentlich hatte alle Welt erwartet, dass sich insbesondere die US-Banken einsichtig zeigen, nachdem sie maßgeblich die Finanzkrise mit verursacht und damit die größte Wirtschaftskrise seit dem 2. Weltkrieg ausgelöst haben. Für Bankeninsider ist es indes wenig überraschend, dass das Gerede über mehr Transparenz und Vertrauen das bleibt, was es ist: Gerede. Die Praxis sieht nämlich anders aus, wie fast täglich neue Beispiele zeigen. In den Monaten seit der Lehman Pleite ist besonderes ein Finanzmarktinstrument verstärkt in das öffentliche Bewusstsein vorgedrungen, die so genannten Credit Default Swaps genannt (CDS). Die hohe ...
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In two weeks, I am supposed to speak on a panel entitled "Financial Re-regulation." My question is, what re-regulation? To me, re-regulation means you would reverse some step that you took toward deregulation. But the new financial reform bill does not reverse any of those steps, as far as I know. For example, the new bill does not repeal Gramm-Leach-Bliley, a 1989 law that ratified the de facto breakdown of the separation between commercial banking and investment banking, which is often blamed for the crisis. You would think that for symbolic reasons, if nothing else, you would repeal that law and go back to ...
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Posner argues that Congress is trying to fix the financial system without fully understanding it. He also points out that by attacking bankers, politicians are distracting attention away from their own role in the current crisis. Textbook References: Pages 654-655 “The Financial Crisis of 2008” Page 750 “The 2008 Fiscal Stimulus” Pages 830-832 “Should Monetary And Fiscal Policymakers Try To Stabilize The Economy” April 27 A Great Sentence David Brooks writes that "The premise of the current financial regulatory reform is that the establishment missed the last bubble and, therefore, more ...
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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke. It's important to understand how so many smart people got so much so wrong. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images President Barack Obama shakes hands with Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke. It's important to understand how so many smart people got so much so wrong. Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner. 'The pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated.'' Those were the carefully chosen words of the Federal Reserve Board after its ...
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With control of the House of Representatives up for grabs in the midterms, Tuesday morning brought a speech at the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio, where House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, openly discussed being the next Speaker as he called for President Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council director Larry Summers. Boehner said, according to prepared remarks, that “if I were fortunate enough to be Speaker of the House, I would run the House differently. And I don’t just mean differently than the way Democrats are running it now. I mean differently than it’s been run in the ...
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