Tag Archives: Federal Financial Regulation

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

Posted on July 16th, 2010

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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GOP seeks SEC records on Goldman

Posted on April 21st, 2010

Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight committee, is demanding a slew of documents from the Securities and Exchange Commission, asserting that the timing of civil charges against Goldman Sachs raises “serious questions about the commission’s independence and impartiality.” Issa’s letter, addressed to SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro and signed by eight other [...]

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Dodd’s Job-Killer: Slapping Main St., Not Wall St.

Posted on April 20th, 2010

 By MARK A. CALABRIA The financial-regulatory bill now before Congress is a fraud: Under cover of “reforming” Wall Street, it would inflict tremendous costs on Main Street. All the fresh publicity about alleged dirty doings by Goldman Sachs, etc., is beside the point: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) has produced a bill that [...]

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