Site Contributions: Regulatory Capture
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06/06/13 - Obama Admin Ups Social Costs of Carbon Damage by 60 Percent
The Obama climate move that nobody noticed ... The Obama administration just made a fairly significant move on climate change, and it flew right under the radar ... The [social ... |
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05/22/13 - Billion-Trillion Derivatives Market! ... Reform or a Blowup?
Derivatives Reform on the Ropes ... New rules to regulate derivatives, adopted last week by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, are a victory for Wall Street and a ... |
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05/21/13 - Make Way for the Killers & the Great Tax Haven Roundup
There are no scandals in Washington. There is simply a turnover. We are preparing for an escalation of the global financial war. The old team is simply being told to step ... |
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05/20/13 - An Unpredictable Recovery
Two-speed Britain as London soars away from the rest ... In London, there are more cranes on the skyline than in the rest of the country put together. Evidence is growing that ... |
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04/22/13 - Time Proclaims the Death of Carbon Marts: Enter Coercion
The green jewel was the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—the European-wide carbon market, by far the largest such system in the world. The ETS, launched in 2005, allowed ... |
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04/19/13 - Gold's Black Market?
Meltdown? 15% of world's gold miners face collapse after plunge in price strips $169-billion off market value ... Gold's 9.3% plunge on April 15, the biggest one-day drop in ... |
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04/08/13 - The Destruction of Offshore Banking Tolls for Thee
Piercing the secrecy of offshore tax havens ... A New York hedge fund manager allegedly swindles $12 million from a prominent Baltimore family. An Indiana couple is accused of ... |
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04/01/13 - Will Tax Havens Subside Now That Cyprus Has Crumpled?
As Banks in Cyprus Falter, Other Tax Havens Step In ... Similar unsolicited offers have originated in well-known havens ... Bloodied by a harsh bailout deal that drives a stake ... |
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03/06/13 - Perception Over Substance – Banking Fallacy?
Mark Carney to the bankers: the joke is on you now ... In the long run, "heads-I-win-tails-you-lose finance" catches up to you. That was the message Bank of Canada Governor ... |
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02/27/13 - Shock: Australian Gov Now to Seize People's Live Bank Accts – If 'Inactive'
CASH GRAB: Inactive bank accounts to be seized ... The government will from May 31 be able to transfer all money from accounts that have not been used for three years into ... |
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02/12/13 - Paper Claims SEC Regulation is Biased ... In Other News, Sky Is Blue
Report Spotlights 'Revolving Door' Issues at SEC ... Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staffers who now work in the private sector may have helped derail last ... |
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12/12/12 - Two-Track Corporate Justice Is Not the American Way
HSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering ... State and federal authorities decided against indicting HSBC in a money-laundering case over concerns that ... |
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10/04/12 - How Does FATCA Impact You?
"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law." ~ Winston Churchill Until a few weeks ago, I was living under the assumption that by now ... |
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09/07/12 - Will Hedge Fund Advertising Ruin Wall Street?
When hedge funds advertise ... Jesse Eisinger, today, joins Matt Levine in worrying about the effects of allowing hedge funds to advertise. The all-but-certain consequence is ... |
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07/20/12 - Success! ... CFPB's 'First Enforcement Action'
Consumer agency fines Capital One for card marketing ... The enforcement action, announced on Wednesday, is the first by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which said it ... |
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06/18/12 - Are You Kidding? SEC Now to Supervise US Ratings Agencies
SEC taps Thomas J. Butler, Wall Street veteran, to oversee ratings agencies ... Consumer advocacy groups voiced concern over the appointment Friday of a Wall Street veteran to ... |
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04/16/12 - FDA Protects Drug Companies Again?
Prescribing labels for Merck & Co's drugs for baldness and enlarged prostate will add reports of sexual side effects that continued after use of the medicines was stopped, ... |
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03/07/12 - Stanford Conviction Re-Emphasizes Regulatory Questions
Report says SEC missed earlier opportunities to investigate Allen Stanford ... Over a meal at a New Orleans restaurant last summer, a former top official at the Securities and ... |
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11/29/11 - Everything Wall Street Does Is Illegal?
Judge Blocks Citigroup Settlement With S.E.C. ... Taking a broad swipe at the Securities and Exchange Commission's practice of allowing companies to settle cases without ... |
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11/16/11 - What Is Naked Capitalism?
ECONNED shows how the financial crisis is ultimately rooted in dubious economic theory. Its wide-ranging historical treatment starts with changes in methodology in the ... |
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