2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow 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 governments oversight of Wall Street and tried to do something about it.
Now, newly released records show just how ardently some of the Clinton administrations most prominent figures shot her down. The documents add to the story of how President Bill Clintons 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/
bkkyosemite
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(960 posts)We will get his influence as well if she should ever make it to the white house.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Which Sanders voted yes.