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The Motley Fool August 23, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
Treasury on Regulatory Failure and "Too Big to Fail" The Treasury Department answers questions on the new regulations and big banking. Part two of a three-part interview. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu |
Why Paulson's Plan Works Saluting the Secretary of the Treasury's proposed overhaul of financial institution regulations. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010 |
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Man Behind Congress' Too Big to Fail Remedy Weighs In on Reform Paul Kanjorski says regulators would have more power with the new legislation. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
Ron Paul: Financial Reform Solved Nothing Rep. Ron Paul discusses reforming Fannie & Freddie and financial reform. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Bleeker & Williamson |
Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start. |
The Motley Fool February 27, 2004 Bill Mann |
Showdown: Greenspan vs. Fannie On Tuesday Greenspan followed up on a Federal Reserve report from last month, stating before Congress that government-sponsored entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would threaten the economy if they were allowed to continue to grow apace. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Stephen Mauzy |
Banks: The Bigger, The Better Big banks will continue to benefit from being too big too fail. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Francis & Sasseen |
Financial Regulations: What Obama Wants The Administration's proposals for regulating the financial markets are wide-ranging. The question now: Are they tough enough? |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Rich Duprey |
Obama's Glass Ceiling Resurrecting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act won't solve anything. |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
A Subprime Fix From Fannie and Freddie While internal housekeeping issues at Fannie and Freddie remain, one hopes that regulatory measures will not be imposed which will hamper their ability to responsibly and flexibly meet the needs of the market. |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2004 Bill Mann |
What Does Fannie Mae Do? Fannie Mae's charter calls on it to ensure that the mortgage market is awash in enough cash so that Americans face minimal problems in their dream of owning a home. But how? And why are its accounting problems such a big deal? |
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different. |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
These Large Banks Aren't Investment-Grade Not for the long term, anyway. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2005 Nick Baker |
Fannie and Freddie Face New Rules The mortgage giants may get a tougher regulator, but Bush and Greenspan want more. Investors, take note. |
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Bob Clark |
The Polar Bears Thawing out our modern black and white thinking could save the fiduciary standard. I don't usually write about politics, except when it has a direct impact on financial advice, and this appears to be one of those times. |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Straight Talk From a Bank Lobbyist An insider sounds off on financial reform. |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John Berlau |
Overregulation Plan Won't Fix Financial Crisis Initial reports indicate that these early hopes of a more accountable regulatory structure from the Obama administration have been dashed. |
The Motley Fool October 22, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Wimpy Regulators and Red Tape The final installment of our interview with Austan Goolsbee, chief economist for the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2010 Robert Schmidt |
The Charmed Life of Hedge Funds As banks get a tighter leash, funds may remain lightly regulated |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Financial Reform Slam the Derivatives Market? Will the freshly signed financial reform bill wreak havoc on the derivatives market? |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie Are Dead. What's Next? Housing, sans Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2009 Dayana Yochim |
Report From the White House: Regulation vs. Capitalism The House Financial Services Committee dives into key measures of the White House's financial regulatory reform effort, and as expected, bankers, financial-industry lobbyists, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others all lined up with thick red pens poised to overhaul the overhaul plan. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2012 Kevin Wack |
13 Financial Regulation Questions For Romney Mitt Romney has participated in 23 debates and sat for scores of interviews since launching his campaign for president, but nearly a year later, he's still maddeningly vague about his views on financial policy. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Warren Buffett Is Wrong on This One All derivatives should be regulated -- even Buffett's. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Will This Fix Our Financial System? Will yesterday's proposed overhauls -- touted by some as a return to the Glass-Steagall days -- sufficiently stomp on sin and folly? |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2006 S.J. Caplan |
Hedge Funds Rule! A federal court strikes down the new "hedge fund rule." The spotlight now shines on the current SEC chairman, Christopher Cox. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2009 |
The White House Wants to Hear From Fools The Motley Fool was selected by the White House to sit down with a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors on Tuesday to discuss the proposal. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Phil Mattingly |
Are Wall Street Lobbyists Losing Clout in D.C.? A GOP senator's support for a tough derivatives bill suggests President Obama may have momentum for broader regulation overhaul. |
Registered Rep. June 17, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
The Fiduciary Battle Continues, Now Under Federal Microscope Among other measures, the Obama administration proposed today that the Securities and Exchange Commission require that broker-dealers offering investment advice be held to the fiduciary standard rather than the suitability standard. |
Investment Advisor July 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Bracing for Change It looks to be all but inevitable that the rules for broker/dealers and investment advisors will be harmonized, and that broker/dealers offering investment advice will have to adhere to a fiduciary standard of care. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2010 Sen. Tim Johnson |
Coordinating Global Regulation Senator who helped hammer out the reform bill says this is just the beginning. |
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 |
Five Questions with Timothy Ryan Jr. Ryan held senior positions in the industry, from the vice chairman level at JPMorgan to Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, where he helped in the S&L cleanup. He talks about today's regulatory needs. |
Registered Rep. July 25, 2011 Lena S. Rizkallah |
Are the New Dodd-Frank Regulations Good for the Insurance Business? While the Dodd-Frank Act will impose additional restrictions on previously unregulated areas in the financial industry, it may also set additional limitations in place on the insurance industry, which some advisors view as unnecessary and others beneficial. |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Are Homeowners About to Hit the Lottery? Rumors are that the Obama administration is about to order lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than what their homes are worth |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2004 Roger Nusbaum |
Freddie's Follies What's next for the mortgage behemoth, Freddie Mac? |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Dakin Campbell |
Wells Fargo Is Ready to Roll Careful mortgage lending practices helped the San Francisco bank avoid the problems plaguing large rivals such as Bank of America and Citigroup. |
Financial Advisor November 2009 Jeff Schlegel |
The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors? |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Fannie and Freddie Why in the world are people still buying these stocks? |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
12 Steps to Solving Our Biggest Housing Problem Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a blight on the housing market, but I think there may be a solution. |
Investment Advisor September 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Turf Wars A conversation with former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos about the Treasury's Blueprint for financial services reform. |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2009 Mike Pienciak |
Freddie Mac: "Please, Sir, More Capital?" Don't blame Freddie, at least not until you blame the government first. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
The Motley Fool September 4, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie: 1 Year Later A look at the first shots fired in the financial meltdown, and where we go from here. |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 24, 2011 Sean Silverthorne |
What's Government's Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing? The private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but it should be carefully monitored using new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. The government should play a role of "guarantor of last resort" in periods of crisis. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2010 |
Financial Reform Doesn't Prevent Too Big to Fail Will the just-passed financial reform bill end the problem of too big to fail? |
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Katz & Schmidt |
A Goldman Guy Turns on the Street CFTC chief Gary Gensler's fight for tough rules on derivatives is making him exceedingly unloved. |