The Challenges of Implementing the Financial Reform Bill
Almost two years after the financial meltdown that triggered a recession, Congress has passed a sweeping a financial reform law. The Senate approved the bill with a 60-39 vote yesterday, largely along...
View ArticleFinancial Reform: Dodd-Frank Bill Lags Behind Schedule
It's been almost a year after Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law and many of the legislation’s rules are behind schedule. Regulators have extended the comment periods on the rules...
View ArticleThis Week's Agenda: Dodd-Frank Anniversary, Consumer Financial Protection...
This week marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Bill into law. A key component of that bill was the establishment of a Consumer Financial...
View ArticleMichael Kirk on "Money, Power and Wall Street"
Three years after America's largest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the country is still recovering. Some banks have received huge bailouts, but countless Americans are still struggling...
View ArticleHow Do Banking Regulations Get Written?
Earlier this month, JPMorgan disclosed that it lost at least $3 billion in trading as a result of sheer mismanagement. "We ended up with a strategy that was flawed, complex, poorly conceived, poorly...
View ArticleFive Years After the Financial Collapse, Is the Economy Still at Risk?
Five years ago this month, global markets were stunned when financial services firm Lehman Brothers collapsed. The bankruptcy filing remains the largest in U.S. history, with Lehman holding over $600...
View ArticleFive Years After the Collapse, The Debate Over Financial Regulation Rages On
Five years ago this Sunday, financial services firm Lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy, triggering the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression—a crisis that reverberated throughout the...
View ArticleSenate Leaders Closer on Financial Reform
Democratic and Republican Senators appear to be closer to a deal on financial regulatory legislation today.The Associated Press reports that the Senate's Banking Committee Chair Christopher Dodd (D-CT)...
View ArticleWQXR's The Washington Report
The Senate has not yet voted on a bill to regulate Wall Street. But over the weekend, the Senate's Banking Committee Chair Christopher Dodd (D-CT) agreed to toughen rules in the bill on derivatives....
View ArticleGOP Blocks Vote on Financial Reform Again
For the second day in a row, Republicans blocked another vote on President Barack Obama's financial reform bill.The Wall Street Journal reports that Republicans voted 57-41 to block action on the floor...
View ArticleWQXR's The Washington Report
South Korea is calling for action against North Korea today, following a suspected torpedo attack that killed 46 South Koreans in March. In this week's Washington Report on WQXR, WNYC's Kerry Nolan...
View ArticleAfter Financial Reform, G-20 Begins
After months of negotiations, House and Senate lawmakers announced they have reached a consensus on financial reform legislation. The Associated Press reports lawmakers negotiated well into the night...
View ArticleWhat's Next for Financial Reform?
As a final Senate vote nears, contributor to Slate.com's Big Money Heidi Moore and WNYC business and economics editor Charlie Herman talk about the future of financial reform.
View ArticleSenate Approves Financial Overhaul Bill
The Senate has approved President Barack Obama's financial overhaul bill.The 60-39 vote Thursday afternoon followed a vote just hours earlier to finally end debate on the measure. The bill, which the...
View ArticleObama Signs Financial Regulatory Bill
President Barack Obama signed a financial regulatory bill into law on Wednesday. The Associated Press reports that the bill is being called the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner on Financial Reform and Energy Bill
The House passed an energy bill last year, and yesterday the Senate abandoned their version. U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner (Democrat, District 9) weighs in on this and other Congressional news.
View ArticleJeffrey Toobin on Chuck Schumer
New York senator Chuck Schumer, who sits on both the Finance Committee and the Banking Committee, has a reputation as a principal voice for Wall Street in Washington. New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey...
View ArticleWall Street and Washington
Former Newsweek reporter Michael Hirsh, now at the National Journal, explains why presidents, from Ronald Reagan through Barack Obama, have put Wall Street before Main Street. In his book Capital...
View ArticleChris Dodd on the Dems' Rough Year
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country we bring you the unmissable quotes from political conversations on WNYC. On today's Brian Lehrer Show, outgoing Connecticut...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: The Economy
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, joins us for this week’s edition of our election series The Big Picture, to discuss the major issue of the midterm elections: the state of the...
View ArticleIs Bank Regulation Excessive, or Necessary?
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on the Brian Lehrer Show, Deborah...
View ArticleFrank Rich on Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, and Class Warfare
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show, Frank...
View ArticleExile on Wall Street
Wall Street analyst Mike Mayo, who worked at six Wall Street firms, analyzing banks and protesting against bad practices for two decades, discusses the role of finance and banks in the US. In Exile on...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs and Wall Street's Culture Problem
Josh Brown, financial advisor aka The Reformed Broker, and author of Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments, to discuss...
View ArticlePaul Krugman Says Recent Spending Bill Was "Designed to be Eye-Glazing"
Nobel Prize winning Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discusses attempts in Congress to roll back financial regulation, including Section 716 of Dodd-Frank, in the recent spending...
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Could Trump weaken financial regulation in Dodd-Frank law?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at election night rally in Manhattan, New York. REUTERS/Mike SegarWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump pledged in his campaign to throw out what he called...
View ArticleCan Wall Street Work for Everyone?
Vanity Fair contributing editor William D. Cohan joins us to discuss his new book Why Wall Street Matters, which argues that Wall Street and the big banks drive innovation and the world economy. Taking...
View ArticleWATCH: Trump signs executive order to review Obama’s tax and Wall Street rules
WASHINGTON — Hoping to spur economic growth, President Donald Trump embarked Friday on new steps to dismantle some of the tax and financial regulations established by former President Barack...
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