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David Dayen: The financial regulation life cycle: write, water down, chip away, obliterate

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By David Dayen, August 2, 2017 The Volcker rule was a sensible principle on the day Paul Volcker announced it in January 2010, in the first Obama administration response to Scott Brown’s Senate victory. Financial institutions shouldn’t be able to take deposits and use the money to gamble in the capital markets. Simple, right? But …

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Why You Need to Understand the Volcker Rule

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In order to understand how the banks made money creating a void and then filling it with what I call a tier 2 yield spread premium, trading withe investors money, and avoiding the trust entirely, you should read the articles relating to the Volcker rule, where “proprietary trading” is frequently put in quotation marks. The …

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