Flying blind

Despite some useful proposals, the Obama administration's regulatory reform initiative published in June ignores a crucial issue, argues David Rowe

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Crises always provide both the impetus and rationale for government action. Certainly, the Great Recession, as our current painful experience is frequently being called, is no exception. Right on cue, the Obama administration has released its Financial Regulatory Reform proposal. Subtitled A new foundation: rebuilding financial supervision and regulation, its substance fails to live up to its title.

The one very constructive proposal it advances is to eliminate legal form as the conclusive basis

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