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Wall Street Must Change and the Debt Must Come Down November 1, 2009

Posted by Judy in Economy, Financial Regulatory Reform, FinancialStability.gov.
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In a pretaped exclusive  interview with David Gregory for Meet the Press Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said two things must happen: Wall Street must change and the debt must come down. He also said that the growth that occured was a positive sign but the recovery would take a while.

The indicators of a budding recovery were that GDP growth was at 3.5% for the third quarter and that job losses had slowed.  The reason the growth will remain sluggish is because other indicators relaeased were lower than previous months. 

Mr. Geithner repeated his admonition (AFP) that the debt was too high and must come down. The debt would be addressed as the economy continues to grow and policies would be decided as conditions dictated. The other importnat statement was that Wall Street must change. The regulatoy proposal caused Wall Street to balk.

Three Cheers for the Obama Economic Team before Advancing to the Next Battle August 10, 2009

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We entered a severe economic downturn or “Great Recession”last September and have been losing higher numbers of jobs consistently, until recently, when the recnt economic data has started to look better. While we are still losing far too many jobs the numbers are not increasing by as much or looking as bad as they once did. The stock market has had another streak of gains for the past four weeks.

When they eneterd office the Obama economic team, Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner in particular weathered harsh criticisms from both the right and the left. They also resisted both the right-wing group that wanted to “let the banks fail” and the left-wing group that wanted to “nationalize the banks.” As a result of ignoring both of these groups they have proposed a balanced plan for regulatory reform.

However, there seem to still be rocky scholas ahead on the regulatory reform front. Today , according to The Washington Post, Sen. Mark Warner announced through an op-ed in the Financial Times that he cannot support the Treasury Department proposal becasue it does not actually create a strong single regulator. While the Treasury’s proposal simply merges the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision to create the National Bank Supervisor. The “Nationalize the Banks” crowd will flock to Sen. Warner’s proposal because it appears tougher then the Treasury proposal, however, one large agency can cause as many issues.