Ezra Klein Archive: Financial Regulation
Wall Street owes the administration a really nice Christmas card
Things are getting ugly as Congress considers financial reform. Legislators don't like the (entirely accurate) perception that the banks got a sweetheart deal last fall. The public wants someone to lose a pound of flesh over what happened to...
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November 20, 2009; 10:04 AM ET |
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The populist politics of financial regulation
The more I think about Dodd's financial regulation bill, the more I think the politics are going to be surprising. Its biggest surprise, for instance, is how much power it takes from the Federal Reserve, and how much it...
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November 11, 2009; 2:43 PM ET |
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A future of financial crises
Felix Salmon recaps an interesting argument he had with Robert Pozen, author of the new book Too Big to Save: I’m also not fully convinced by one of Pozen's big ideas, which is that banks should have small and professional...
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November 11, 2009; 10:48 AM ET |
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Does banker pay matter?
There have been two arguments for limiting bankers' pay. One is that it's a way to punish executives at corporations that took a taxpayer bailout. The other is that it's a way to reduce the incentives for taking risks and...
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October 23, 2009; 12:47 PM ET |
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Cutting bankers' pay
The Obama administration is getting serious on bankers' pay: The Obama administration plans to order companies that have received exceptionally large amounts of bailout money from the government to slash compensation for their highest-paid executives by about half on average,...
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October 22, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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Regulating Derivatives
The House Financial Services Committee just approved an amendment mandating that derivatives traded between financial institutions must be traded on an exchange. That would mean the pricing would be public and the counterparties clear, something that manifestly didn't happen when...
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October 15, 2009; 11:29 AM ET |
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