Well, the Obama Administration has come out with its sweeping recommendations “to restore confidence in the of integrity of our financial system” in a massive 85-page white paper. In it the President’s team proposes a five-part initiative to increase regulation of virtually every corner of American finance from banks to brokerage firms to insurance, expanding the power of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the SEC, and creating too many new councils and agencies for me to tally up. (You probably don’t recall that Herbert Hoover tried the same thing in 1929: It didn’t work out so well.)
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