Read more deregulation stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/30660/deregulation.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:04:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73751/financial-reform-how-to-prevent-another-greenspan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere's a lot riding on reform of the financial industry, but the administration's plans to overhaul financial regulation carries the seeds of its own destruction, writes Thomas Frank. Taking oversight away from the present confusing array of agencies and making the Federal Reserve One Big Regulator means that when the...http://www.newser.com/story/73751/financial-reform-how-to-prevent-another-greenspan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 11 Nov 2009 9:44:29 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70083/in-hong-kong-palin-blames-big-govt-for-crisis.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe global financial crisis was the fault of governments, not corporations, Sarah Palin told investors today at a closed-door talk in Hong Kong. In her first speaking engagement outside North America, the former Alaska governor said that "we got into this mess because of government interference in the first place....http://www.newser.com/story/70083/in-hong-kong-palin-blames-big-govt-for-crisis.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Sep 2009 6:20:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69620/working-class-picks-wrong-villains.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen the tea party protesters converged on Washington, one leader, radio demagogue Mark Williams, repeatedly described them as “working stiffs” who felt left out. It’s no wonder they’re angry, writes Timothy Egan for the New York Times , because it’s been a lost decade for “working stiffs.” In 2008 the poverty...http://www.newser.com/story/69620/working-class-picks-wrong-villains.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 17 Sep 2009 11:25:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61284/browns-woes-offers-obama-reality-check.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Bush administration has taken much of the blame for the American recession, but a "huge housing bubble and a financial crisis" were always on the cards, as Paul Krugman writes for the New York Times. Writing from London, where voters gave Gordon Brown a pummeling in Thursday's elections, Krugman...http://www.newser.com/story/61284/browns-woes-offers-obama-reality-check.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 08 Jun 2009 8:50:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57000/how-wall-street-went-hollywood-and-brought-down-our-economy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDuring the Great Depression, legend has it a group of Wall Street bankers went to Hollywood to see if it was worth investing in, only to be immediately repulsed by the brazen displays of wealth they saw there. Now that it's the bankers being pilloried for their excesses, writes Neal...http://www.newser.com/story/57000/how-wall-street-went-hollywood-and-brought-down-our-economy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 23 Apr 2009 11:42:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55860/banking-should-go-back-to-being-boring.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Paul Krugman was in grad school, nobody wanted to be a banker. Sure, it paid more than being an academic economist, but “everyone knew that banking was, well, boring,” he writes in the New York Times . That was before deregulation came into vogue in the 1980s, turning finance into...http://www.newser.com/story/55860/banking-should-go-back-to-being-boring.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Apr 2009 9:20:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54983/dc-still-turns-blind-eye-to-banks-spitzer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere’s a reason the government seems to have no control—darn the luck—over the banks it’s poured billions into: It’s trying to save face, writes Eliot Spitzer for Slate. Washington has struck a tacit bargain with Wall Street, the ex-governor says: Taxpayers bail out the financial institutions, changing nothing...http://www.newser.com/story/54983/dc-still-turns-blind-eye-to-banks-spitzer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Apr 2009 11:38:05 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54826/thatchers-big-bang-free-for-all-led-to-bust.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe British regulatory reforms that changed the face of the financial industry in the '80s allowed banks to become bloated giants, two architects of the so-called "Big Bang" changes tell the Wall Street Journal . The deregulation let London's financial sector flourish, the men say, but also allowed banks to become...http://www.newser.com/story/54826/thatchers-big-bang-free-for-all-led-to-bust.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 31 Mar 2009 6:55:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51273/obama-should-draft-krugman.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama’s economic team so far has failed to inspire confidence, writes Steven Stark for the Boston Phoenix . Instead of Geithner and Summer, Obama should pick a new man to lead the charge on the financial crisis: Appoint Paul Krugram, Nobel laureate and economics columnist for the New York Times...http://www.newser.com/story/51273/obama-should-draft-krugman.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Feb 2009 15:11:02 CST