It would be better if it were Warren G calling for Elizabeth Warren to regulate (or is that too many Warrens?), but we’re still amused that a group called the Main Street Brigade has produced a hip-hop video calling for her nomination as director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection: The Main Street Brigade [...]
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Tyler Durden (if that’s his real name) over at Zero Hedge brings us, as he so often does, a light-hearted and amusing look at the hilarity of the market. Or, specifically, how every major firm has their own Skynet and are each trying to out-Skynet everyone else, illegally. Awesome. Recently we posted a required reading [...]
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So just this morning that financial reform thingy got its last Congressional vote before becoming law, and assuming our dear president doesn’t have a last-second case of teh veto lulz, it’ll be officially signed into law sometime next week because why rush things. We haven’t said much about the bill lately for a number of [...]
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President Obama will speak today and present yet another argument for more regulation in the markets: President Barack Obama will say today that the U.S. risks dooming itself to a repeat of the economic crisis unless tougher financial industry regulations are enacted by Congress. The U.S. was almost dragged into a second Great Depression by [...]
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The FT would have us believe that the Dodd bill might actually oust some of the foxes from the henhouse. Salon dissects: Pack up your bags, Jamie Dimon. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase currently serves as a Class A director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is awfully convenient, considering that the [...]
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