Search results for "bailouts"

June 25, 2010
Securities-Law Overhaul in U.S. Is Approved by Panel

June 25 — Congressional negotiators today approved the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. financial regulation since the Great Depression, reshaping oversight of Wall Street. Lawmakers from the House and Senate...


April 26, 2010
Spin and Duck: Washington’s Failure to Pursue Real Financial Reform

The heat is on financial regulatory reform this week as Democrats and Republicans jockey for who is protecting the taxpayers from the big bankers. Score one for the Republicans who...


April 16, 2010
More Than Money

    Published in 1888, Bellamy’s book about achieving a utopian society was a huge best seller in its time.     “Perhaps you would like to see what our...


February 09, 2010
Competition Policy, Bailouts, and the Economic Crisis

Bruce Lyons, Nov 01, 2009 The aims of this paper are twofold. First, I explain the economics of bank bailouts as distinct from bailouts for other sectors of the economy....