Tag Archives | financial regulation

Our Toothless S.E.C.

By on November 30, 2011 in Economics, Politics

Speaks for itself:   What happens when Wall Street breaks the law? Not much By Amitai Etzioni, Special to CNN updated 7:33 AM EST, Wed November 30, 2011 STORY HIGHLIGHTS It’s instructive to follow a news story and see how people respond to it, says Amitai Etzioni For example, Wall Street firms repeatedly break laws [...]

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The fourth wave

By on November 16, 2011 in Economics, General Discussion, Human Behavior

Alvin Toffler described three waves in our development: The First Wave was the agrarian society which replaced the hunter-gatherer, the Second Wave was the industrial society, and the Third Wave was what he referred to as the post-industrial society which we tend to refer to as the information-society, or similar denotation. What has now arrived is what [...]

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Maybe Obama isn’t quite as bad as he seems

By on October 30, 2011 in General Discussion, Politics

Far from being merely a continuation of Bush’s second term–which can be seen most obviously in the financial bailouts and the continuation/expansion  of Bush’s wars and tax cuts, Mettler tries to make the case that Obama did attempt some fundamental reforms of what she calls the ‘submerged state’: little known subsidies for the rich and [...]

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Four things that should have happened.

By on October 12, 2011 in Economics, General Discussion, Politics

I see four things that would have made the world a much better place today, a couple of them would have been very simple, and would have had a major impact to improve where we are now. 1) If financial regulation had been expanded to include the effects of global finance and the proliferation of [...]

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