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Why is Obama asking for new power for the Treasury?

…delivery of services by the FDIC, its corporate infrastructure, and policy initiatives in the areas of deposit insurance, supervision of financial institutions, resolutions and management of failing and failed institutions,…

What about the OCC ruling?

…allowing banks to offer new products and services. To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of OCC supervision, including reducing regulatory burden. To ensure fair and equal access to financial services…

Nuclear Option and Trust

…Government budget discipline dissipated; fiscal policy became pro-cyclical. Financial regulation and supervision was weak to non-existent, encouraging credit and asset price booms and bubbles. Hope was the word. Trust is…

The Alpha and the Omega of mid-2007

…respond to financial crises centered on nonfinancial institutions? A premise of our system is that banks accept much closer supervision from public authorities in return for privileged access to the…

Passive makes for never proven guilty…of anything.

…in that the system–the institution–failed to check the behavior of those who did wrong. There was a failure of supervision by senior officials in the Department. And there was a…

Shadow system ethics

…expected to last beyond 1 year.” (6) “The inherent nature of the service, or the manner in which it is provided, reasonably requires directly or indirectly, Government direction or supervision

Bank risk models and regulation

…Now, by Avinash D. Persaud: Sir Alan Greenspan, and others have questioned why risk models, which are at the centre of financial supervision, failed to avoid or mitigate today’s financial…

Swiftboating Anthony Zinni

…even mentioned until page 9 of this 29 page document and Zinni led with: While Iraq’s WMD capabilities were degraded under UN supervision and set back by Coalition strikes, some…