Category Archives: Financial Reform

The Propaganda Of Incompetents

INVESTORS.COM Economy: As the “recovery summer” turns into a nightmare, one thing has become painfully clear: This is the most economically incompetent administration since the Great Depression. Two years into the Obama era, when the U.S. should be enjoying a booming recovery from the 2007-08 meltdown, with millions of new jobs and higher incomes for [...]

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Political Cartoons: Financial “Reform”

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Obama’s Latest Monstrosity

By:  John Berlau  The American Spectator  The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called “financial reform.” Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what [...]

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Obama’s Hollow Shell: A.K.A. “Financial Reform”

I don’t have time to go into the financial reform bill that was passed by the Senate yesterday, so I just wanted to weigh in briefly with my opinion of the latest Obama Outrage. This bill is 2,300 pages long and I assume that the same diligence was pursued by Members of both Houses of [...]

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The Real Party of Wall Street

Photo credit: media.photobucket.com By: Michael G. Franc NRO Online The Democrats’ populist assault on all things Wall Street, we are told, helps them politically regardless of the legislative outcome. Democrats, NBC Nightly News reported, “actually scheduled [Monday’s] vote knowing they would lose and they did because they see it as a political win — better [...]

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Political Cartoons: Michael Ramirez

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Politico Breaking News

POLITICO Breaking News: Lawmakers reached a final deal on a Wall Street reform bill early Friday morning after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) agreed to a compromise with House Democrats on her derivatives regulation bill – clearing the way for the broadest rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations since the Great Depression. The legislation would create [...]

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Derivatives Sour Wall Street on Obama

Some say that if the language survives, there will likely be consequences in terms of Wall Street support for Democrats in the midterms and President Obama’s reelection campaign.  AP Wall Street executives say language in the Senate financial reform bill dealing with derivatives is like a horror movie slasher — repeatedly left for dead, only [...]

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Senator Dodd’s Regulation Plan: 14 Fatal Flaws

by James Gattuso The Senate is expected to take up a proposal, originally authored by Senator Chris Dodd (D–CT), to reform the financial regulatory system in the U.S. The goal is clear: to minimize the chances that another financial crisis—and bailouts—will arise again. The objective is a good one. Unfortunately, the 1,408-page bill includes numerous [...]

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