Regulation

In the summer of 2000, David Poor, a direct descendant of a founder of Standard & Poor's, flew me to his family's Nantucket home on a private jet.

Why are Republicans rushing to oppose co-ops? In the New York Times, Robert Pear and Gardiner Harris describe the vagueness of the various co-op proposal floating around the moment before ending on a discouraging note.

"Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, said he saw the differences as more semantic than substantive. "You can call it a co-op, which is another way of saying a government plan," Mr. Hatch said."

To understand America's economic future, it helps to look at some of our largest trading partners. Will we move towards a smaller state, a more egalitarian economy or both?

Ellen Seidman, who served as the head of OTS from 1997-2001, says it's time to consider if OTS should be eliminated, although she declined to comment on the ...

On June 3, 2003, the Treasury Department’s James Gilleran brought a chainsaw to a photo-op. While speaking to reporters, he promised to cut up piles of paper representing regulations of the financial sector. Joining him were representatives of four other U.S. regulatory agencies in charge of overseeing finance, armed with less formidable (but still sharp) gardening shears. The message was clear: The Bush Administration was tearing down the final pieces of the New Deal regulatory wall.

Ellen Seidman, a former bank regulator who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank, expressed support for the new agency in her prepared remarks for the committee. But she said bank regulators should retain consumer ...

The president has proposed setting up a consumer financial protection agency to protect you from bad lending practices. But how will this change the federal landscape? Melissa Koide is Deputy Director of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation. She joins us with her take on what this new agency would do. Link to audio