Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Reform Bill Adds Layers of Oversight

This article focuses on a bill that has been put forward by Senate Democrats and backed by the Obama administration that calls for financial regulations and a larger government role in Wall Street. This is not uncommon, usually when free markets fail there is a call for more government regulation, however this regulation should not take away incentives to for profits or efficiency.

2 comments:

Melissa Tan said...

this landmark legislation is definitely something to be looking at. It will be interesting to see how much oversight powers the Fed will still have when the legislation passes.

Kevin said...

I think that in the US case some incentives to make profits should be taken away; not by creating dead weight but by making incentives for profit reconcile themselves with NOT screwing over homeowners.