Wednesday, April 1, 2009

How I would Remake Federal Financial Regulation

by Bill Maloni

The Obama Administration and Congress need to substantively refurbish the federal financial regulatory network, which failed us as a nation during the Bush years and continues to provide more questions than answers.

Rhetoric to the side, federal policy makers have an opportunity today to drive a significant restructuring or just could wimp out and merely change the coverlet on the financial regulatory bed, introducing some pretty new colors, but leaving in place soiled blankets and sheets underneath.

The early Obama/Geithner plans look more like the latter than the former. The President needs to be bolder.

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