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Jan 17, 2018

Thoughts On the Minneapolis Fed’s Plan to End Too Big to Fail

Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis released the final version of its Plan to End Too Big to Fail. The final version looks much like the initial version that was unveiled in late 2016. I thought at the time…

Brian Knight in FinRegRag

May 3, 2017

A suggestion for the new Acting Comptroller’s first day

Brian Knight in FinRegRag

Sep 12, 2017

Don’t Get Mad about fixing Madden

In a recent op-ed in American Banker (derived from a longer blog post), Professor Adam Levitin…

Brian Knight in FinRegRag

Jan 3, 2018

Senate Bill Would Deny U.S. Securities Trading to Chinese Companies

By Andrew N. Vollmer

Senior Affiliated Scholar, Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Former Professor of Law, General Faculty, University of Virginia School of Law; former Deputy…

Andrew Vollmer in FinRegRag

Jun 26, 2020

What Remains of Kokesh After Liu?

By Andrew N. Vollmer

Senior Affiliated Scholar, Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Former Professor of Law, General Faculty, University of Virginia School of Law; former Deputy General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission…

Hester Peirce in FinRegRag

May 15, 2017

Following the Fiduciary Rule

The Department of Labor, following a presidential directive, put the fiduciary rule on hold until June 9. The rule is a controversial project by the Department to change the way retail investors interact with financial professionals. We don’t know what will happen to the rule…