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insta8er

(960 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:43 PM Apr 2016

How the Clinton Team Thwarted Effort to Regulate Derivatives

In April 1998, a decade before a historic crisis wreaked havoc on global financial markets, an obscure regulator saw a potential gap in the government’s oversight of Wall Street and tried to do something about it.

Now, newly released records show just how ardently some of the Clinton administration’s most prominent figures shot her down. The documents add to the story of how President Bill Clinton’s team took a stance, on derivatives and other issues, that shielded Wall Street from more aggressive oversight in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis

[link:http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/04/how-the-clinton-team-thwarted-effort-deregulate-derivatives.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/|

For those of you wondering why I deleted my previous post about this, I messed up some of the formatting and decided to create this new post. Link to the article, wasn't showing up..trying it this way:
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2014/04/how-the-clinton-team-thwarted-effort-deregulate-derivatives.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

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How the Clinton Team Thwarted Effort to Regulate Derivatives (Original Post) insta8er Apr 2016 OP
She cannot be our President. bkkyosemite Apr 2016 #1
It's 2 for 1, on one hand she likes to take credit for his accomplishments but not for his failures insta8er Apr 2016 #2
One of the things which happened and was big in the financial crisis was the CFMA, of Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #3
Oh, the other bill Bernie voted for. nt Jitter65 Apr 2016 #4
 

insta8er

(960 posts)
2. It's 2 for 1, on one hand she likes to take credit for his accomplishments but not for his failures
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:46 PM
Apr 2016

We will get his influence as well if she should ever make it to the white house.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. One of the things which happened and was big in the financial crisis was the CFMA, of
Fri Apr 22, 2016, 07:46 PM
Apr 2016

Which Sanders voted yes.

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