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Paul Volcker. The Volcker Rule is section 619 [1] of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. § 1851).The rule was originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in 2010 to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers. [2]
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, conducted August 15–17, found that 47% of Americans opposed the idea of a public option and 43% expressed support. [53] A July 2009 survey by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found that 28% of Americans would like to purchase a public plan while 53% would prefer to have a private plan.
The term "Greenspan put" is a play on the term put option, which is a financial instrument that creates a contractual obligation giving its holder the right to sell an asset at a particular price to a counterparty, regardless of the prevailing market price of the asset, thus providing a measure of insurance to the holder of the put against falls in the price of the asset.
Getty Images A dispatch from the Dodd-Frank wars in our nation's capital: Big banks seeking to roll back financial reform have returned to lawmakers' good graces -- not just Republicans, who ...
Wall Street appears to be sleeping through Washington’s latest debt ceiling crisis. It should wake up. Debt ceiling: The best option for a fix is Wall Street's least favorite [Video]
Title VII, also called the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010, [66] concerns regulation of over the counter swaps markets. [67] This section includes the credit default swaps and credit derivative that were the subject of several bank failures c. 2007.
The editorial board of The Wall Street Journal is criticizing President Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 his supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “This is a rotten ...
Wall Street is the home of the country's two largest stock exchanges, and "Wall Street" is a metonym for the United States financial sector. Major historical Wall Street reform bills include the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, the Truth in Lending Act of 1968, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the Gramm ...