Category: Market Regulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Financial Crisis As A Game Of 3 Card Monte / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
You Always Think You Are Going To Win Until You lose - We live in a three card monte world. Follow the money as it moves from one shell to another. Now guess where it is. Most of us don’t know the hand can be quicker than the eye. That’s why mostly everyone who has ever been suckered into playing ends up losing except those who are allowed to win to keep the hustle going. We miss the tricks of the trade even as we swear we know where the winning card or money or ball is.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Financial Reform, How We Can Save Our Economy / Politics / Market Regulation
By: David_DeGraw
The next few weeks will culminate into a defining moment in American history and lay the course for our economic future. After two years of being asleep at the switch, Congress is finally stepping up and taking action on financial reform. The resulting bill will be a clear indication and definitive proof as to who is actually running our country. Will it reinforce the dominance of the Wall Street elite, or will it mark a rebirth of the rule of law and economic prosperity for millions of Americans who have seen their standard of living decline?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
High Frequency Financial Terrorism, Wall Street Bankster's Maintain Death Grip on United States / Politics / Market Regulation
By: David_DeGraw
III: Financial Terrorism Operations: 9/29/08 & 5/6/10
In the aftermath of Goldman Sachs’ public flogging before the world in Congress, and while under investigation, on the very day that Congress was voting on the "break up the too big to fail banks" amendment and cutting behind the scenes deals to gut the audit of the Federal Reserve, the stock market had its greatest sudden drop in history, plummeting 700 points in ten minutes - shades of September 29, 2008 all over again.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
U.S. Congress Financial Regulation Reform Hypocrisy, Exempt Themselves From Insider Trading Laws / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Mike_Shedlock
President Obama is pushing hard for financial reform except for where this crisis started, the Fed. Please consider Bank Bill Attracts Populist Amendments
Monday, April 26, 2010
Time to Fight for Financial Reform or the Bankster's Go Free / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
The President has spoken, but the system is still broken. The SEC has come down on Goldman Sachs but the company is now mounting a no-expense spared defense.. Shocking disclosures of greed and fraud continue to trickle out from the Mammon factory and Babyloniaan leviathan that is Wall Street.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Gerald Celente, Obama's Financial Reforms Just a Show / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Submissions
Wall Street regulation is the hot topic today; President Barack Obama gave a speech to the finance industry encouraging them to join him in reforming Wall Street. Gerald Celente says that there is a huge problem with Obamas Financial Reform bill because the same people that got us into this economic mess are the ones advising Obama.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Financial Industry Regulations, There Needs To Be Consequences / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Sy_Harding
Rob a bank and you know you’ll go to prison if you’re caught. Fail to pay your taxes and you’ll personally pay a large penalty and perhaps spend time in prison. Drive your car recklessly and you know you’ll pay if you’re caught. Make bad or careless decisions in your business and the result could be bankruptcy.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
"High Frequency" Financial Trading is Wall Street High-tech Highway Robbery / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Mike_Whitney
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) knows that High-Frequency Trading (HFT) manipulates the market and bilks investors out of tens of billions of dollars every year. But SEC chairman Mary Schapiro refuses to step in and take action. Instead, she's concocted an elaborate "information gathering" scheme, that does nothing to address the main problem. Schapiro's plan--to track large blocks of trades by large institutional investors-- is an attempt to placate congress while the big Wall Street HFT traders continue to rake in obscene profits. It achieves nothing, except provide the cover Schapiro needs to avoid doing her job.
Monday, April 19, 2010
How the Goldman Sachs Fraud Case Could Accelerate Wall Street Financial Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: When the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it had filed a fraud action against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), the news hit the financial markets like a carefully targeted bomb.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Silver Lining to U.S. Corruption / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Jennifer_Barry
Many Americans believe that their government is incompetent, but it’s actually corrupt. Transparency International defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.” Crony capitalism, sweetheart deals, lucrative post-government jobs, and campaign contributions in exchange for votes: these are all examples of corruption.
Friday, April 16, 2010
France Does Not Like Crude Oil Speculators / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_McKillop
France wants Group of 20 nations to limit easy access by the "trading community" to the betting chips, that is derivative holdings and leveraged positions, traders use to speculate on oil. This makes oil prices not only volatile, which perhaps is OK, but at present also makes them rise, which is not OK. Speculative excesses driving down traded natural gas prices to near-record lows are perhaps not surprisingly for a country which imports gas as well as oil, absent from a new French proposal. In a French Finance Ministry report, authored by finance professor J-M Chevalier, the belles idees of France are set out in what reads like a fight for cheap oil in a science fiction trading world of the distant future.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Financial Reform, Three Ways to Fix Wall Street / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: The financial-reform bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-CT, seems likely to pass both houses without all that much alteration.
And that should immediately raise our suspicions. After all, the U.S. financial-services business has a very effective lobby, so if there isn't huge opposition to the legislation, it probably won't achieve all that much.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Passing the Buck / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
Last week the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held hearings as part of their continuing investigation into the causes of the acute economic meltdown which occurred in late summer 2008. This bipartisan commission, partly inspired by the Pecora Commission- which investigated the causes of the Great Depression - is expected to report back to Congress before the end of the year.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Financial Reform Fades While The Need Escalates / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Sy_Harding
The need for reform and re-regulation of the financial industry increases, while the odds of meaningful reform fade with every action and statement by those involved.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Going After the Banksters, Then and Now / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
A Tale of Then and Now, FDR vs Obama: A Story of Shame, Co-optaton, Partisan Bickering and Industry Lobbying To Undermine Financial Reform
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Stop Greedy Banks from Killing Capitalism and Stealing From Tax Payers / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Taking No Prisoners
What the big banks want is the socialization of their risk exposure and the privatization of their unbridled profitability.
And they are willing to hold the economy hostage to get it.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Financial Sector Regulations Fleeting Opportunities / Politics / Market Regulation
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The Senate Banking Committee has approved Democratic legislation overhauling Wall Street Regulations on a party-line vote. The bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects remain in doubt…
The committee vote Monday was 13-10…
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Friday, March 12, 2010
New Banking Regulations … Same Old Story / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: U.S. banks, drunk with greed, drove the nation's economy to the brink of financial Armageddon.
To save U.S. banks from losing their license to dangle the nation's economy over a cliff, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the country's elected elite threw them a bailout party and gifted them with the accounting- world's version of "Transformers. "
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Does the Financial System need New Guard Rails? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Mike_Whitney
There's finally some good news on the housing front, but it has nothing to do with sales, inventory or interest rates. In fact, it has nothing to do with market conditions at all. It's a story about politics and how government can work when elected representatives do their jobs. The details are laid out in an article by Dean Baker. Here's an excerpt:
Friday, March 05, 2010
Banks Stress-Testing Tax-payer Patience! / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Sy_Harding
Congress is working on plans to rein in the questionable activities of Wall Street, and re-direct the self-serving focus of major banks. I wish them good luck with that.
The financial firms are fighting back with propaganda blitzes aimed at raising public fear.
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