Posted on November 15th, 2010 by tom groenfeldt
Commissioners of the Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC) which has regulatory over the commodities markets and now, since Dodd-Frank, over derivatives, said the elections didn’t change much. At the Futures Industry Association meeting in Chicago in early November, they said that until Congress changed the terms, Dodd-Frank is the law of the land and they [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2009 by tom groenfeldt
The US needs a single financial stability regulator, said Tom Ryan, chief executive of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). In a recent presentation at a Reuters conference, Ryan said that regulatory agency will need better information. “Regulators are basically rear view people.” They have been operating with data that is three months [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2008 by tom groenfeldt
US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s proposals are catching a lot of flak from NY Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman Although he works in Princeton, nearly 200 miles from Washington, Krugman routinely beats the pants off the Washington press corps by reading legislation and budgets, paying attention when the Bush administration gives five [...]
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