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October 12, 2023

RAP Sheet Report 2023: Wall Street’s Ongoing Crime Spree

For years, Better Markets has been tracking the enforcement actions against the nation’s six largest banks (the “Six Megabanks”), along with some of the most prominent civil cases. The number of actions…

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May 15, 2023

Banking Crisis Exemplifies the Fed’s Enforcement Failures: Here’s What to Do About It

Below is the Introduction to the Report. Read the full Report here. The failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Silvergate Bank, and First Republic Bank—as well as the ongoing banking…

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March 23, 2023

The Ongoing Use and Abuse of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation

Better Markets released a report entitled “The Ongoing Use and Abuse of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Financial Regulation”: Why It Matters. Preserving the ability of regulators to adopt the rules we need to…

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February 14, 2023

Shadow Banking Series

Nonbank financial institutions that make up the largely unregulated “shadow banking sector” pose serious risks to the U.S. financial system. Their growth in size, scope, and interconnectedness over the last decade has…

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February 01, 2023

The Securities And Exchange Commission: Regulation And Enforcement In 2022

Major Progress But More Work To Do Read the full report here. The SEC’s Mission and Why it Matters The SEC is critical to maintaining the integrity,…

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January 25, 2023

The SEC’s Excellent Record on Crypto: Regulation and Enforcement

Better Markets released a report entitled “The SEC’s Excellent Record on Crypto: Regulation and Enforcement”: Why It Matters. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been subject to withering and relentless criticism—…

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January 17, 2023

Federal Reserve Policies and Systemic Instability: Decoupling Asset Pricing from Underlying Risks

Dennis Kelleher, Cofounder, President, and CEO; Phillip Basil, Director of Banking Policy While most of the current focus on the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) is around inflation and the Fed’s fight against it,…

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December 22, 2022

Protecting Our Economy by Strengthening the U.S. Banking System Through Higher Capital Requirements

The largest banks in the U.S. remain subject to insufficient capital requirements that undermine the stability of the financial system and leave the possibility of future banking crises too high. Capital standards…

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September 26, 2022

Better Markets Issues Report on Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 Term, Focusing on the Court’s Views on Financial Regulation and the Structure of the Administrative State

Abortion, gun control, the First Amendment—Supreme Court decisions on these sorts of social-policy topics consumed much of the nation’s attention last term. But that term was also momentous for financial regulation and…

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