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Bill USA

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2. absolutely. It's a very complex web of financial transactions that have to be monitored and

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 17, 2012, 05:44 PM

Jan 2012

regulated so as prevent reckless behavior from jeopardizing the whole system - extremely challenging job. Especially when the twits you are regulating will be constantly trying to 'slip one by' the regulators.

Keeping track of systemic risk is the new factor which is critically needed. I just wonder if the regulators have the tools they need to keep the investment banksters and hedge fund managers from taking us all off a cliff?

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After reading this, it appears to me that Dodd-Frank is establishing... ellisonz Jan 2012 #1

absolutely. It's a very complex web of financial transactions that have to be monitored and Bill USA Jan 2012 #2

I wonder too... ellisonz Jan 2012 #3