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Editorial Investors.com 4/24/2015 Regulation: To understand how far Dodd-Frank set back the financial industry, look at the first bank to open in the country since that legislation became law in 2010. It is literally a horse-and-buggy operation. Dodd-Frank was sold as the salvation of America’s wayward financial system. President Obama hailed the “reform” as a […] April 26th, 2015 | Tags: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act | Category: banking regulations, Barack Obama, Congress, Economy, federal regulations | Comments are closed
Megyn Kelly The Kelly File FoxNews.com 1/14/2015 Gun retailers are claiming discrimination after being cut off by some mainstream payment processors. Gun dealers believe it’s part of a quiet effort to restrict gun sales and put them out of business. According to a report from The Daily Signal, some gun sellers feel like it’s not […] January 14th, 2015 | Tags: ammunition, gun control, gun sales, Katie Pavlich | Category: 2nd Amendment, Banking and finance, banking regulations, Department of Justice, Progressives | Comments are closed
Glenn Beck 6/17/2014 Have you checked your bank accounts lately? According to Australia’s Herald Sun, the Australian government seized a record $360 million from ‘dormant’ household bank accounts in 2013 alone. A rule change in 2012, allowed the government to seize the money in some 80,000 accounts that had been dormant for three years. Prior […] June 17th, 2014 | Tags: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Joe Kerry | Category: banking regulations, Glenn Beck, Pennsylvania | Comments are closed
Editorials Investors.com 4/25/2014 Subprime Scandal: Newly released memos from the Clinton presidential library reveal evidence the government had a big hand in the housing crisis. The worst actors were in the White House, not on Wall Street. During the 1990s, former Clinton aides bragged that more aggressive enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act pressured banks […] April 27th, 2014 | Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Blacks, Community Reinvestment Act, Glass-Steagall Act, Hispanics, housing bubble, President Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, subprime banking crisis | Category: ACORN, banking regulations, Fannie Mae, federal regulations, Freddie Mac, Housing and Urban Development, Media accountability, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Elizabeth Warren threatens companies she suspects of funding public criticism of her Timothy P. Carney The Washington Examiner 12/5/2013 I’m generally for more disclosure in campaign finance, but the best argument against requiring full disclosure by groups engaged in political speech is that politicians sometimes retaliate against their critics. Sen. Elizabeth Warren inadvertently made that […] December 6th, 2013 | Tags: bullying, campaign contributions, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Third Way | Category: 1st Amendment, Banking and finance, banking regulations, Congress, Elections, Fascism, Politicians | Comments are closed
Conn Corroll The Washington Examiner 3/16/2013 Over a decade ago in 2001, the Federal Reserve planted the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis by lowering its target for the federal funds rate from 6.25 percent to 1.75 percent. Since this interest rate is a benchmark number used throughout financial markets, many first-time homebuyers were able […] March 17th, 2013 | Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, Ben Bernanke, derivatives, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, feudalism, housing bubble, investors, Janet Yellen, JP Morgan Chase, quantitative easing, real estate, Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. John McCain | Category: "Stimulus" program, Banking and finance, banking regulations, Congress, corruption, Department of Justice, Economy, Federal Reserve | Comments are closed
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