Posts Tagged ‘financial regulation’
Dodd-Frank revisited
A headline in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had me wondering whether their proofreader had missed an extra comma: Wall Street, Banks Press to Shape Dodd-Frank Rules The article reports recently disclosed figures on financial industry lobbying. Since the Dodd-Frank law left so much for regulators to spell out, the numbers are not surprising: Wall Street ...Read more.
Arizona Injunction; Baker on CBO and SS
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image for today: (2) Judge Blocks Az. Law S.B. 1070. Breaking news–U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton blocked key parts of Arizona’s restrictive and invasive immigration law, which was to go into effect in a couple of days. Here’s what the New York Times has to say: In a ruling on a ...Read more.
Black on Dodd-Frank; USAS Victory; etc.
Various items: (1) New Blog Feature: Possibly Irrelevant Images. With this post I inaugurate a new feature for the D&S blog (or at least my posts here): Possibly Irrelevant Images, random images I have come across on the Internets (as I like to call them, in tribute to GWB). An inspiration for this feature is ...Read more.
Three Big Headlines: BP, Banking, Goldman
Wow–three big headlines today: (1) BP supposedly manages to cap the Deepwater Horizon well–for now, at least–after 87 days of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. It is clearly far from over. Not only are we not really sure whether the well will stop spewing oil (as indicated by this article posted to the ...Read more.
