Category Archives: Financial Reg Reform

All things related to work we have done on financial reg reform.

Buy Clorox: Management Focused On Shareholder Value

I take great pleasure in recommending investors buy Clorox (CLX) – an attractive-rated stock, not just because of its strong profitability and cheap valuation but also because of the unusually high quality and integrity of its financial reporting.

Wall Street’s Secret Plans To Continue Raiding the Capital Markets

In another excellent expose “Wall Street Proprietary Trading Under Cover”, Michael Lewis exposes Wall Street’s plan to exploit loopholes in the laws and regs to continue proprietary trading, the activity that was the primary downfall of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.

Private Sector to the Rescue Part 1: The Google Price Index and Better Markets, Inc.

At a time when most of the public believes political leadership to be weak, we should not focus on finding scapegoats but rather on assuming accountability to help fix problems.

SEC Porn Problem: Officials Surfing Sites During Financial Crisis, Report Finds

You have to read this to believe it: “SEC Porn Problem: Officials Surfing Sites During Financial Crisis, Report Finds”. And we wonder why Wall Street stays a several steps ahead of the regulators.

My Trip To DC

In June 2009, I went to DC to meet with Senator Corker, the SEC, the Senate Banking Committee, the FDIC, the Congressional Oversight Panel and the Public Company Accounting And Oversight Board.