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...today’s economy. As Roger Lowenstein wrote in a recent article, banks today make an overwhelming percentage of their profits from trading, in effect making them giant hedge funds-in-disguise that pose a stability risk to the market while also performing some banking operations. The Volcker rule, which would ban banks from engaging in proprietary trading, would change technical classifications that are easy to work around, as investment banks could shift risks or sell their deposit-taking businesses with little pain. As Lowenstein notes, a transaction tax such as the one that has been proposed in England...
...member PERAB, which meets by conference call most Fridays, is best known for its leader, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who has persuaded Obama to take a more aggressive approach to banking regulation. But it also includes several executives whose firms stand to benefit from more federal funding of green technology - people like General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt and Caterpillar's James Owens, both of whom supported John McCain. Doerr took the lead on the group's energy subcommittee, drafting a 2009 memo that called for increasing fees on carbon pollution and changing rules to encourage electric utilities...
...questions he asked were the ones he should have been asking." He said he hoped the Administration would use the Massachusetts Senate loss "to assert the progressive agenda that people thought [he] stood for" rather than retreat to the center. Oh, and Obama should be listening more to Paul Volcker. (See the screwups of Campaign...
Skeptics say it will be very hard to define which trades are being made on behalf of the firm and which are being made for clients. At issue as well is which firms would be subject to the Volcker rule. The skeptics say the Volcker rule wouldn't have stopped the collapse of Lehman or another investment bank, Bear Stearns, because they were not traditional banks. (Administration officials say the proposed rule would apply to any firm that owns a bank with federally insured deposits, which Lehman and Bear both did.) What's more, critics say, if you were...
...problem is that Wall Street and Washington appear to have very different definitions of what is proprietary trading. Goldman and others are defining proprietary trading as the day-to-day money these firms risk in the markets, buying and selling stocks and bonds. Volcker seems to want to limit not just this trading but also the big long-term bets banks make on real estate, mortgages and other securities...