Telephone hacking: Cursory and complacent | Comment is free | The Guardian
"Think of the opprobrium heaped by the press on the regulators who slept while the banks overheated and crashed. And then read the report of the industry's own "regulator" into the recent developments concerning phone-hacking by...

Senators eye removing Fed powers - Top Stories - FT.com
Senate struggle update

Guardian: Telephone hacking: Cursory and complacent
Guardian leader: "Since the information commissioner first reported on the widespread use of private investigators by journalists in 2006, the only bodies to have made a determined effort to find out what was going on have been the information...

A Child Understands the Fall of the Wall, by David Henderson
As Bryan has mentioned, Monday, November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Chapter 3 of my book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey, I tell that story and integrate it with my recollections of explaining my...

A Child Understands the Fall of the Wall, by David Henderson
As Bryan has mentioned, Monday, November 9 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Chapter 3 of my book, The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey, I tell that story and integrate it with my recollections of explaining my...

About NASAA
NASAA is the voice of state securities agencies responsible for efficient capital formation and grass-roots investor protection. Their fundamental mission is protecting consumers who purchase securities or investment advice, and their jurisdiction...

The new war on raw
Forget raw milk. The big new conflict is over raw oysters:In an effort to reduce cases of a rare, but potentially fatal, bacterial illness contracted from raw oysters, the FDA announced new rules this month that will require any oyster served from April...

Can Citigroup Carry Its Own Weight? - Series - NYTimes.com
OVER the past 80 years, the United States government has engineered not one, not two, not three, but at least four rescues of the institution now known as Citigroup.

Regulation Going Backwards
Here’s another one of those stories that will make your blood pressure boil: Instead of moving forward with broad regulatory protections of economics system, we are undoing effective regulations that protect investors.Floyd Norris has the details....

FT.com / FT Trading Room - Congress budget office says OTC derivatives reform to cost $872m over four years
The staffing bonanza for regulators signals a new period of much closer oversight of traditionally opaque OTC markets.

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Inspector General Admits SEC Pretty Much Sucks At Its Job [Sucky Government]
The SEC's inspector general has released a jailhouse interview in which his royal Ponziness, Bernie Madoff himself, explains that he got away with his scheme because the SEC basically sucks. From the NYT: In the interview, Mr. Madoff said that the...

We Won’t Play Politics With GM…
…except when we do.  I think everyone pretty much assumed that Obama’s promise of treating GM like a real business and not as a political plaything was BS from the start, particularly when Congress started intervening in dealer-closure decisions...