Posts tagged ‘regulation’

Love, Love, Love Those Government Regulations

by , posted on Sunday, March 16th, 2014 at 2:42 pm

Hey you Tea Party folks, how’s that ‘drowning the government in the bathtub’ routine going??? How’s that ‘getting rid of government regulations’ working for you, huh?

My neighbor just opened up her Nicor gas bill to see a ONE month charge of $960.00. The month before was nearly $700.00. The bills were double and triple the bills from last year.

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No, she doesn’t live in a house the size of a public library. Her house is about 3,200 square feet—large for sure, but not enough to warrant one month’s heating costs of well over $900.

She checked all over her house for changes in her venting, open storm windows, and any heating leak problems she could find. NADA. NONE. Everything sealed tight. Everything.

So she called Nicor.

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Are Big Banks Too Big to Regulate?

by , posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2012 at 4:00 pm

from The Real News Network

Michael Greenberger: If somebody understood the economic issues and explained them to the American people, you could easily be elected president by saying you’re going to put an end to the Wall Street hijinks

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The Bill Black Financial and Fraud Report

by , posted on Friday, October 5th, 2012 at 9:39 pm

from The Real News Network

Bill Black: Obama susceptible to attack by Romney because he failed to deal with systemic risk to financial system – even though Romney would be worse

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Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Market 20 Times Global GDP

by , posted on Tuesday, September 25th, 2012 at 10:36 am

from The Real News Network

Markus Stanley (Policy Director, Americans for Financial Reform): Derivative bets not a zero sum game, have far reaching real world consequences

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Bill Black Report: Race to the Regulatory Bottom

by , posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2012 at 7:24 am

from The Real News Network

Bill Black: Wall Street wants to compete with London for lack of financial regulation,

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Bill Black Report: Majority of Wall Street Money Now Goes to Romney

by , posted on Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 at 10:21 am

from The Real News Network

Bill Black: Even though many on Wall Street understand need for regulation, most want a free-for-all and damn the consequences

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Bill Black Reports: LIBOR and HSBC

by , posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 at 10:23 am

from the Real News Network

Bill Black, author of “The Best Way To Rob a Bank is to Own One” begins a regular TRNN feature reporting on financial news

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The Carbon Pollution Rule and Global Warming

by , posted on Saturday, June 16th, 2012 at 4:47 pm

from the Center for American Progress

Center for American Progress Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy Daniel J. Weiss explains why the Carbon Pollution Rule is important for the environment.

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Why We Need A Stronger Volcker Rule

by , posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 at 11:11 pm

from the Center for American Progress

Center for American Progress’ Jennifer Erickson, Director of Competitiveness and Economic Growth, describes the Volcker Rule and explains why it needs to be strengthened.

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“End This Depression Now”: Paul Krugman Urges Public Spending, Not Deficit Hysteria

by , posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 2:30 pm

from Democracy Now!

Public spending is under assault from the United States to Europe in the name of fighting deficits. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argues in his new book, “End This Depression Now!”, that the hysteria over the deficit will constrain an economic recovery in a time of high unemployment and stagnating wages. “The economics is really easy,” says Krugman, “If we were to spend more money at the government level, rehire the school teachers, firefighters, police officers who have been laid off in the last several years because of cutbacks, we would be a long way back toward full employment. … Right now there’s just not enough spending. We need the government to step in and provide the demand we need … We’ve had austerity in the face of a recession in a way that we’ve never had before since the 1930s. The results are clear — it is disastrous.” Krugman writes about the economy as a columnist for the New York Times and is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

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