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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's (D-CT) draft financial reform package is so filled with bad policies that it is hard to decide where to start. Rather than trying to break up the financial regulatory reform proposed by the Obama ...
Social Security's finances are the latest proof that government spending is out of control. Earlier this year, the Social Security Administration predicted that it would start to spend more in benefit payments than it receives in taxes, a sharp ...
Abstract: The next financial crisis could cause the entire global financial system to collapse. However, the Obama Administration's proposal is unrealistic and would give government regulators almost unlimited powers to take over or micromanage ...
Since Social Security recipients will get no cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) next year, President Obama wants to give each of them $250, a move supported in principle by the Republican House and Senate leadership. However, this move is not only ...
During last year's presidential campaign, Barack Obama noted that "you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." This phrase neatly sums up the ongoing House Financial Services Committee markup of H.R. 3126, the Consumer Financial Protection ...
Starting this year, Social Security will spend more in benefits than it will receive from its payroll taxes. This is somewhat unexpected as just last year, the 2009 cash surplus was predicted to be about $80 billion. Even in May of this year, the ...
One year ago today Lehman Brothers collapsed, sending another 92 subsidiaries into bankruptcy. President Obama will mark the occasion with an address to Wall Street in which he will likely outline some broad principles for financial regulatory reform. ...
The Treasury Department has proposed consolidating the existing consumer protection divisions of the various federal financial regulatory agencies into a new and powerful Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). The CFPA would be responsible for ...
The recent financial regulatory reform plan issued by the Treasury Department[1] is a detailed mixture of overreaching policy mistakes, missed chances for real reform, blanks that will be filled in later after studies, and a few good ideas.
One key ...
House Republicans on the Financial Services Committee have released a comprehensive financial regulatory reform plan.[1] The plan has several key features that are unfortunately likely to be missing from the coming Obama plan.
The proposal focuses on ...
