"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
But Dodd-Frank was neither an FDR-style, paradigm-shifting reform, nor a historic assault on free enterprise. What it was, ultimately, was a cop-out, a Band-Aid on a severed artery. If it marks the end of anything at all, it represents the…
So why isn’t the White House rushing to nominate her for the position? In a word: fear. This time, it’s not the ire of Glenn Beck that has Team Obama’s backbone turning to mush — it’s the fear of angering…
Firedoglake and Clusterstock detail its mostly tepid provisions. Oh gosh, you mean the consumer protection agency will be part of the Fed. Surely, we will protected now. Blanche Lincoln’s attempt at serious derivative regulation got whacked. Look, it’s being dubbed…
Liberal and progressive blogs are in a tizzy today because Blanche Lincoln won her primary and will presumably remain a senator. Yup, she’s bad on labor issues. But she’s really hardball on financial reform, saying the banksters should spin their…
NY Times weighs in on financial reform: “loopholes.” Too many derivatives trades are exempted from public disclosure on exchanges. Too many users are subject to relaxed scrutiny. Regulation in hindsight is not adequate to prevent systemic collapse. It is not…