Category: Market Regulation
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Tame Financial Speculators By Regulating Speculative Capital Flows / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Global_Research
Kavaljit Singh writes: Just days before the G20 summit in Toronto, South Korea and Indonesia announced several policy measures to regulate potentially destabilising capital flows which could pose a threat to their economies and financial systems.
The policy measures announced by South Korea and Indonesia assume greater significance because both countries are members of the G20. In 2010, South Korea chairs the G20.
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
Chinese Yaun Manipulation, Currency Reform Bill Is Only a Small First Step / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Ian_Fletcher
It’s nice to see the long-stewing Chinese currency manipulation pot bubbling a bit again, thanks to China’s latest blatantly disingenuous move to allow a token fluctuation or two of the yuan. And it’s great that Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s currency bill is inching towards the floor of the Senate. (The underlying idea, giving American industries formal trade remedies against currency manipulation by foreign governments, was actually thought up several years ago by Kevin Kearns, president of my organization, the U.S. Business & Industry Council.)Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, June 26, 2010
What Now After Financial Reform? Will We Be Spared Another Market Crash? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
The Sturm und Drang is over. The Bank lobbyists went home to collect their bonuses as the House and Senate agreed on a 2000 page financial “reform” quickly praised by the White House and superficially covered in the press.
The key underreported fact highlighted by Naked Capitalism: “On a flat trading day, financial firms shares rose 2.7% after the deal was announced.” Compare that to the market volatility and dire forecasts on Wall Street that followed the call for new financial regulations and you can see who won.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Congress Dithers On Financial Reform While Courts Give “Get Out Of Jail Cards” To White Collar Crooks / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
No Yellow Cards Here: Wall Street Banksters Lead In The World Cup of Phony Reform
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an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance : talk of unity was nothing more than a charade.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Ultimate Market Regulator Failed / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Shelby_H_Moore
Email sent to: Brooksley Born,
I know your fought for the regulation of OTC derivatives: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article14485.html
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
BP Criminal Negligence and the US Culture of Crime and Punishment / Companies / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_Butter
The legal battle that will determine whether BP survives has only just begun. The result will hinge on whether someone or more than someone, employed directly or indirectly by BP in the drilling operation prior to the blow-out did something that was “negligent”, or “reckless”, or not done strictly in accordance with the approved safety procedures and the myriad of regulations mandated by this or that agency.
Friday, June 11, 2010
How to Cure Western Bankers of Bad Bankster Behavior / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Masayuki Oku, the new head of the Japan Bankers Association, recently said that Western bankers did not understand self-control the way Asian bankers did, which was a major cause of the 2008 crash and the Great Recession.
I think he has a point.
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Warren Buffett's Hypocritical Defense of Credit Ratings Agencies / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Justice_Litle
In his hypocritical defense of the credit ratings agencies, Warren Buffett has kissed his own reputation goodbye.
The bad behavior of the credit ratings agencies was a root cause of the global financial crisis. As TV pundit Charlie Gasparino put it, they have "the most corrupt business model in corporate America."
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Call To Act, Save And Strengthen Financial Reform / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
We have less than a month to go before the Congress votes on financial reform.
Ironically, the deadline seems to be July 4th, our independence day, an occasion that will likely usher in ever more dependence on Wall Street despite appearances.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Rating Agency BubbleOmics: Time For the Regulators to Take Away Their Ball / Interest-Rates / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_Butter
Writing in Barron’s under the title “The Credit Umpires Blew It, Too”, Randall W. Forsyth concluded:
…the leading ratings agencies aren't seen as venal, stupid or hopelessly conflicted by the way they're compensated. No, it's even worse. They're seen as irrelevant.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Regulation Era – The 60’s Return / Politics / Market Regulation
By: OilPrice_Com
The decade of the 1960s stood orthodoxy on its head. It was a time when alternative everything got a hearing. Expertise came into doubt; the phrase “some decisions are too important to be left to the experts” was heard everywhere.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Why Bank Regulators Can’t Tell A Dead Parrot From A “Resting” One / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Andrew_Butter
Caught this one via Edward Harrison on the tedious business of bank regulation, capital adequacy, and other such delightful subjects, ideal for anyone who can stomach more discussion on something that many (particularly central banks and regulators), would prefer to be just swept under the carpet.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Obama Impotent As Wall Street Criminals Are Given A Free Pass And Watered Down Reforms / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
We now know that it was the Obama Administration led by the President himself who used techniques well understood and denounced decades earlier by none other than Mao TseTung.
Mao had no use for those who talked left to move right.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Tobin Tax Plan Wall Street Hates … But Can’t Seem to Kill / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently came out in favor of a "Tobin tax" - a small tax on financial transactions, proportionate to the size of the transaction. The Tobin tax idea also has been proposed by Britain's former prime minister, Gordon Brown, and was proposed in Congress by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-OR.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Financial Reform Bill Failure, Gordon Gekko Is Alive and Well / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: Tony_Sagami
I don’t go to the movies often, but I have a weakness for macho, action films so I went to see the new Robin Hood with Russell Crowe. It was a great movie, but what really caught my attention were the previews before the feature presentation.
What caught my attention was the trailer for Wall Street 2 and the return of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
After the Crisis: Planning a New Financial Structure, Learning from the Bank of Dad / Stock-Markets / Market Regulation
By: John_Mauldin
This week we visit an essay from an old friend of Outside the Box, Paul McCulley, the Managing Directpr of PIMCO. This is a speech he did at the Minsky Conference sponsored (I believe) by the Levy Institute. It was also the same speech he gave at my conference mid-April that was quite well received.
Essentially Paul argues that the cause of the recent crisis was the creation of the Shadow Banking System outside the purview of regulation. And while he did not use the line in this speech, he did at my conference, which is one of the truly great lines I have heard this year.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Will the Financial Reform Bill Really Rein In Wall Street? / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes: The Senate on Thursday approved an extensive financial reform bill that would give Washington broad new powers over Wall Street. However, there's still a question over whether the bill will really be able to rein in Wall Street, or if it will simply become another broken barrier tripping up the free market.
Monday, May 24, 2010
US Senate Rubber-Stamps the Dictatorship of the Big Banks / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Global_Research
Patrick Martin writes: The US Senate’s passage of the Obama administration’s financial reform bill Thursday was hailed in the media and by official Washington as a landmark effort to curb the power of the big banks. But on Wall Street itself, the news was greeted with a mixture of dismissal and applause.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Financial Reform Is Here But Banks Are Still Too Big To Jail / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Danny_Schechter
I was among those raving about the passage of the financial reform bill. And now I am just raving,
“Unbelievable,” said one advocate who hoped for the best but expected the worst. He was amazed it even passed. The wise men in the media immediately began making comparisons with the New Deal. The pundits praised the President and the fact that a handful of Republicans did not just say no this time.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
U.S. Senate Passes Fake Financial "Reform" Bill / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Washingtons_Blog
The Senate passed a financial "reform" bill today by a 59-39 vote which won't fix any of the core problems in the financial system, and won't prevent the next financial crisis.
The bill doesn't include the Volcker Rule (it wasn't even debated), doesn't break up or even substantially rein in the too big to fails, and doesn't force transparency in the derivatives market.
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