A summary of where we are in the legislative reform process of the financial system. [BTW: follow me on Twitter – cate_long — tweeting on the conference process) From an email announcement from the House Financial Services Committee: The Wall Street Reform Bill: Conference Update Washington –Last week was a successful week for the House [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech at the Bank of Japan on the importance of central bank independence and transparency… Chairman Bernanke espoused a lot of platitudes… but the reality of the Fed’s actions is their deep entanglement with the administration, Congress and Wall Street… I think we will be hearing more speeches [...]
Conservatives and progressives worked together to support Senator Sanders in his quest to have the Federal Reserve audited. Kudos to Senator Sanders. We took a big step forward in reclaiming our nation today. Bloomberg reporting… ~~~ “The Senate approved an amendment to the regulatory-overhaul bill authorizing a one-time audit of the Federal Reserve’s emergency-lending programs, [...]
From Washington’s Blog: ~~~ “On Tuesday, I wrote: The Fed argues that an audit would interfere with its monetary policy decisions. [But] decisions about what toxic assets should be accepted by the Fed as collateral, how such assets should be valued, and who bailout funds should be given to are wholly separate from the Fed’s core monetary [...]
President Obama should do Americans a favor and get behind the AUDIT THE FED amendment rather than fighting it. His actions in this matter subvert every campaign promise he made about accountability and transparency. When Congress passes the Sanders “AUDIT THE FED” amendment today important information will be audited by the Government Accountability Office such [...]
The Dodd bill (Senate bill 3271) grants enormous new powers to the Federal Reserve. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is filing an amendment (S. 3738) to “audit the Fed” which currently has fifteen cosponsors. America needs ponder if a private, independent institution should control such a substantial part of financial system without complete and thorough [...]
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Shahien Nasiripour of Huffington Post wrote a great story today about new language spotted in the FOMC meeting statement… and the pointed use of that language to send a message to the lawmakers who are deciding the new scope of the Fed’s authority… The Federal Reserve is arguing that it must maintain supervisory authority over [...]
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The House of Commons Treasury Committee Ninth Report of Session 2009–10 Report, together with formal minutes Ordered by the House of Commons, to be published 22 March 2010 Too important to fail– too important to ignore Summary The banking crisis of the last two years resulted in government support for the sector around the world amounting to almost a [...]
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
William Cohan, author of “House of Cards” and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talks with Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker about how collateralized debt obligations helped drive American International Group Inc. to the brink of disaster. Also today the Federal Reserve released the details of the Maiden Lane holdings… which includes the dreck described in [...]