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Senators to pair up on financial reform
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 days ago
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Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd has asked key members of his committee to split off into bipartisan working groups in an effort to break the logjam on financial reform legislation, a top White House priority. The plan was hatched Saturday night after...
Tags: financial reform, Washington, Bob Corker, Mike Crapo, Christopher Dodd, Subprime mortgage crisis, Chuck Schumer
Vampire banks rise again | Dean Baker
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Vampire banks rise again Wall Street will never be fair while industry lobbyists wander the halls of Congress, sucking the life out of financial reform There are more than 15 million people unemployed and almost 2 million people set to lose their homes...
Tags: financial industry, Congress, financial reform, Federal Reserve Board, New York City, Ron Paul, Subprime mortgage crisis, Subprime lending, Federal Reserve System, Lobbying, 111th United States Congress, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Business Finance
What Really Went Wrong?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility But "how can Washington reform the financial system when we still don't know what happened?" Chairman Phil Angelides was in DC to deliver a keynote address at a New America Foundation conference on financial reforms, jobs, housing and the dollar. Economists,...
Tags: Phil Angelides, Pecora Commission, FCIC, wall street, financial reform, Ferdinand Pecora, New York City, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New Deal, Financial crisis
Real Estate, On the Wane, Fights to Stay Politically Relevant Amid Financial Reform
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility A glut of available credit compounded matters, in turn flash-freezing property buying...And the federal government wants to ensure that the risky mortgage products that in part helped hurl the nation headlong into this mess are strictly regulated...House...
Tags: estate industry, U.S. Senate, Senate Banking, Congress, financial reform, federal government, subprime loans, election cycle, lobbying expenditures, Chuck Schumer, Washington, Chuck Schumer, Dismissal of United States Attorneys controversy, Video game censorship, Subprime lending, National Association of Realtors, Subprime mortgage crisis, Financial economics, Interest rates, Business Finance, Politics
Dodd to unveil financial overhaul legislation
Washington :: DC :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has spent months trying to craft a bipartisan bill behind the scenes with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the senior Republican on the panel. But Democrats and Republicans have clashed on numerous parts of...
Tags: Senate Banking Committee, financial reform, Christopher Dodd
Dodd to go alone with draft for financial reform
Washington :: DC :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility Dodd (D-Conn.) plans to circulate a draft bill of sweeping financial reforms as soon as next week that breaks with the Obama administration and the House on two key issues, officials said. The legislation, which is still being finalized, would consolidate...
Tags: Barack Obama, financial reform
Survey: College sports in need of financial reform
Miami :: FL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility College and university athletic departments might have to drop some sports unless reforms such as controlling the cost of coaching contracts are implemented, according to a survey released Monday. The survey of presidents of schools at major college football's...
Tags: financial reform, college sports
Corker skeptical on financial reform this year
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sen. Bob Corker, who has emerged as a powerful GOP voice on the Senate Banking Committee, says any plans to vote on financial reform legislation by early November are "totally impractical." Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who chairs the Banking Committee,...
Newsday: Piecing together health-care reform
Congress :: AZ :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Piecing together health-care reform September 11, 2009 Can we talk? That was the key question implicit in President Barack Obama 's high-stakes health care speech Wednesday before a joint session of Congress . It was an important bid to turn the debate...
Tags: financial reform, care reform, Congress
China calls for new global currency system
Beijing :: China | 8 months ago
Credibility China has called for a reform of the current global currency system which now relies on the US dollar for international payments. Officials from the International Monetary Fund and developing countries have welcomed the suggestion. Yuan Xiaoyuan takes...
Tags: People's Bank of China, central banks, Zhou Xiaochuan, banks governor, global currency, financial reform, development banks, Medellin, international financial, Colombian
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