Obama Plans Fast Action to Tighten Financial Rules

The Obama administration plans to move quickly to tighten the nation’s financial regulatory system.

Officials say they will make wide-ranging changes, including stricter federal rules for hedge funds, credit rating agencies and mortgage brokers, and greater oversight of the complex financial instruments that contributed to the economic crisis.

Broad new outlines of the administration’s agenda have begun to emerge in recent interviews with officials, in confirmation proceedings of senior appointees and in a recent report by an international committee led by Paul A. Volcker, a senior member of President Obama’s economic team.

A theme of that report, that many major companies and financial instruments now mostly unsupervised must be swept back under a larger regulatory umbrella, has been embraced as a guiding principle by the administration, officials said.

Some of these actions will require legislation, while others should be achievable through regulations adopted by several federal agencies.

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3 comments on “Obama Plans Fast Action to Tighten Financial Rules

  1. Branford says:

    Also fast action plans to promote abortion overseas and promote the LGBT agenda in every facet of society, denying states the ability to legislate locally and calling for an “expansion of hate-crimes statutes” – so when will it become a “hate crime” to preach the Bible in church?

  2. Cennydd says:

    May I suggest we all immediately write to our congresspersons and senators…..urging their vocal and legislative opposition to Obama’s plans? I did……strenuously!

  3. Cennydd says:

    I was referring to the abortion and LBGT issues.