Comments on: Sheila Bair blesses the Finance Reform bill http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/26/sheila-blesses-finance-reform-bill/ Life during wartime Tue, 22 May 2012 08:18:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ed http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/26/sheila-blesses-finance-reform-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-50491 ed Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:44:50 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/?p=3373#comment-50491 Time passes and things get watered down. Times says the zombie banks are about to win the battle of re-regulation: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/opinion/10sun1.html Time passes and things get watered down.

Times says the zombie banks are about to win the battle of re-regulation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/opinion/10sun1.html

]]> By: ed http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/26/sheila-blesses-finance-reform-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-44116 ed Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:06:41 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/?p=3373#comment-44116 John Reed is NOT happy with the bill: The most damning comment ... was offered by former Citigroup co-chief executive John Reed, who had worked with Rubin to get Glass-Steagall reversed and now is a sharp critic of the result. "We continue to listen to the same people whose errors in judgment were central to the problem," Reed told Bloomberg News. "I'm astounded because we basically dropped the world's biggest economy because of an error in bank management." Reed estimated that the financial deregulation proposals contained in the Dodd-Frank bill and other reforms of the Obama administration represent only 25 percent of the change needed. http://www.truth-out.org/robert-scheer-in-money-changers-we-trust66383 John Reed is NOT happy with the bill:

The most damning comment … was offered by former Citigroup co-chief executive John Reed, who had worked with Rubin to get Glass-Steagall reversed and now is a sharp critic of the result.

“We continue to listen to the same people whose errors in judgment were central to the problem,” Reed told Bloomberg News.

“I’m astounded because we basically dropped the world’s biggest economy because of an error in bank management.”

Reed estimated that the financial deregulation proposals contained in the Dodd-Frank bill and other reforms of the Obama administration represent only 25 percent of the change needed.

http://www.truth-out.org/robert-scheer-in-money-changers-we-trust66383

]]> By: ed http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2010/06/26/sheila-blesses-finance-reform-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-34691 ed Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:14:11 +0000 http://newcombat.net/Conversation/?p=3373#comment-34691 As she indicates, much of the proof will be in the regulations that her agency (FDIC) and others promulgate with the authority given by the Cong legislation. Thus the lobbyists turn ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/business/27regulate.html?hp As she indicates, much of the proof will be in the regulations that her agency (FDIC) and others promulgate with the authority given by the Cong legislation.

Thus the lobbyists turn …

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/business/27regulate.html?hp

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