Monthly Archives: October 2009

So we’ve spent a fair amount of time on the CFPA; I need to move over and start blogging about all the other parts of the financial reform (which I’ve should have been doing all along). A lot of this … Continue reading →

I have a longer post up at The Atlantic’s Business Channel, titled Consumer Financial Protection for Our Military. I hope you check it out! It’s the story about a wave of consumer financial protection initiatives brought about in 2005-2006 by … Continue reading →

I want to jump in with 2 cents on this exchange about status spending at the Inequality forum at Cato Unbound. Elizabeth Anderson: One single mother, desperate to see her daughter wear socially accepted clothes, couldn’t pay her utility bills … Continue reading →

Libertarian Kerry Howley has a fascinating piece at Reason: “Are Property Rights Enough? Should libertarians care about cultural values? A reason debate”, with two reactions. She writes: I call myself a classical liberal in part because I believe that negative … Continue reading →

The blog here is a bit of a dude space. What can you do? It’s a blog about finance. But before we wander away from SuperFreakonomics, I’d like to take a moment to bring up their chapter on prostitution. I … Continue reading →

Some last thoughts to follow up on previous writing on geoengineering. 1) I want to link to this excellent writeup by Nate Silver, and this quote from “Dr. John Latham, a seventysomething British scientist employed by the National Center for … Continue reading →

Does anyone want to open a consulting/lobbying firm with me where we just make up numbers? Like Mr. Ford does with polling statistics in Frisky Dingo, if you are fans, but with financial institutions? (Please avoid the obvious joke of … Continue reading →

I’d really like to thank James Kwak, Kevin Drum, and Felix Salmon for follow-up comments on the CFPA Financial Autopsy amendment. So looking at the Committee on Financial Services markup page for the CFPA, the original Financial Autopsy amendment (#13, … Continue reading →

The “Financial Autopsy” Amendment, which we discussed here, was introduced for committee markup by Congressman Grayson with quotes from this blog! (He mentions an Atlantic Business Channel contributor, not ‘rortybomb’, which is probably for the best.) That’s pretty damn awesome … Continue reading →

I’ve just been informed by people in Washington DC that there is a newly proposed amendment to the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, an amendment that I find promising. Here is a first draft: Today we will offer the “Financial Autopsy” … Continue reading →