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Bank Lobbyists Are Not Only Trying to Kill NEW Legislation, They Are Trying to Weaken EXISTING Regulations
Everyone knows that the lobbyists for the financial giants are trying to kill any tough new regulations.
But they are also trying to weaken existing regulations.
Specifically, Robert Borosage notes:
The
[derivatives] bill that the House will consider on Wednesday creates a clearinghouse,
not a publicly managed exchange. It also allows banks to decide that a
deal is so unique that it needn't be posted on the clearinghouse. The
best experts in the field -- like Michael Greenberger of the University
of Maryland -- warn that the legislation might end up WEAKENING current
law. That is no small achievement, because, as we saw in the collapse
of AIG, current law is toothless...
As I have previously noted, Satyajit Das - a leading derivatives expert - also says that the new credit default swap regulations not only won't help to stabilize the economy, they might actually help to destabilize it.
Borosage continues:
The
banking lobby is nothing if not shameless. They hope to use the reforms
to WEAKEN current law. They are pushing to make the federal standard
the ceiling on reform, stripping the power of states to have higher
standards. Basically, they are hoping to find a way to shut down the
independent investigations of state attorneys general like New York's
Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo or Illinois' Lisa Madigan. (for a good
summary of this see Dave Johnson's blog here)
And Ryan Grim writes:
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan pushed back against her fellow Democrat, Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.), on Wednesday, sending a letter
(PDF) opposing her effort to block states from having the ability to
write bank regulations that are tougher than those imposed by a federal
Consumer Financial Protection Agency...
On Wednesday, the
committee took up a proposal to create a Consumer Financial Protection
Agency. As currently structured, it would set baseline requirements,
but states would be able to toughen their own regulations. An amendment
by Bean would prevent states from doing so and a vote could come as
early as Thursday...
Bean is the co-chair of the pro-business New
Democrat Coalition's financial services task forced and vies for the
title of Wall Street's favorite Democrat. Bean and other New Dems are
tussling with committee progressives over federal preemption.
If Bean's measure carries, states would not be allowed to enforce
consumer protection laws on national banks that are stronger than those
at the federal level. All banks would need to do, then, is water down
regulation at the top, rather than in each state legislature...
Only
in her third congressional term, Bean has already taken more than two
million dollars from the finance, insurance and real estate
industries...
- advertisements -
Sounds like a reason to buy some banking stocks.
Having moles like BARNEY FRANK and Nancy Pelosi("I will run the investigation on the financial meltdown") in the Congress is incredibly disempowering. There is no recourse for the people of the country, except a full out taxpayer revolt. I suggest never, ever voting for a Democrat or non-Ron Paul-type republican in the future. Stick to your guns and check off 3rd party candidates for EVERY position. The banks are running an inside job with collusion by prominent,lifer politicians.
excellent article. the vampire squid has to take ever more provocative steps to keep the ponzi alive. once it stops we all know the end result.
Bank lobbyists need to go the way of the Dodo bird.
Bank Lobbyists need to go the way of the Dodo bird.
http://www.isda.org/press/
There it is. A bunch of people making new banking laws, new internatinal treaties, new everything without any adult supervision at all. All they want is the power to have every tax payer in every country responsible for whatever deals they make.
Looks like a vote to abandon mark to market costs $20,000 for Melissa Bean. Barney is a bargain at $8,500.
I wonder what a Hummer would cost?
http://www.counterpunch.org/andrew10152009.html
Coffee bean, lima bean, pinto bean, soy bean...
Just want to see what a melissa bean looks like...
http://cdn.freedomspeaks.com/Web/Uploads/federal.us-legislative-house.il-8/6e6c66f736754daba552264ef947439c_xl.jpg
Not quite as smart as Mr. Bean apparently...
http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/28500/Mr-Bean--28642.jpg
.... she did get a BA in something however... that and her work for the girl guides and church choir puts her over the top. I wonder who is writing her material these days...