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SEC CHIEF PARTIED WHILE BEAR STEARNS COLLAPSED

Cat.: Federal Reserve Board, Securities & Exchange Commission, Dept. of the Treasury, News & Comment
23. June 2008
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The Wall Street Journal's Kara Scannell and Susanne Craig take a long look today at the low-profile kept by Securities and Exchange Commissioner Christopher Cox during the Bear Stearns bailout. They lead with the amazing image of Cox ...

BAMBOOZLED BY BUSH—AND HENRY PAULSON

Cat.: Federal Reserve Board, Securities & Exchange Commission, Dept. of the Treasury, News & Comment
31. March 2008
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That’s what New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues—that the so-called major announcement today by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is a ruse to keep financial institutions from being regulated. Krugman is less than impressed with the administration’s plan of re-arranging the regulatory bureaucracy. “To hide their lack of ...

ARE CLINTON AND OBAMA IN BED WITH WALL STREET?

Cat.: Securities & Exchange Commission, News & Comment
21. March 2008
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The Los Angeles Time’s Janet Hook and Dan Morain speculate on how the millions Wall Street banks and financial firms have given to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will affect their regulation of the financial markets. Each has received just over six million from Wall ...

IT’S WHEN GOVERNMENT STOPS REGULATING THAT BUSINESSES SHOULD BE WORRIED

Cat.: Federal Reserve Board, Securities & Exchange Commission, Your Money at Work, The Forum
15. February 2008
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Recently the New York Times made a point that Understanding Government would like to second:  when you deprecate the role of government for years on end, government stops working, in every sense. 

WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS AS FBI, SEC NAVIGATE SUBPRIME

Cat.: Securities & Exchange Commission, News & Comment, FBI
15. February 2008
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The subprime mortgage loan and broader credit crisis have such a complex and varied range of causes and effects that for government agencies coming in after the fact, it can be challenging to figure out where to start -- or who's responsible.  As Carrie Johnson writes in the Washington Post, ...

Preventive Journalism Alert: Foreign Control over U.S. Market Regulation?

Cat.: Securities & Exchange Commission, Globalization, Federal Reserve Board, Dept. of the Treasury, Issues & Ideas, The Forum, Your Money at Work, Preventive Journalism
29. August 2007
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Could America's superpower status be endangered by the country's thirst for ever greater profits from  complex investment products?  The strategic consequences of massive foreign investment in the U.S. economy are now emerging.

SEC FOCUSES ON LEVERAGED BUYOUTS, HEDGE FUNDS

Cat.: Securities & Exchange Commission, Yesterday's News?, News & Comment
27. June 2007
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Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox announced that the SEC has launched a dozen or more new investigations, the Wall Street Journal has reported.  At issue are new methods of selling off debt that have driven leveraged buyouts in recent years, known as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and collateralized ...