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“I bark orders from the fifth floor and nobody listens. If I don’t have these people along with me, government won’t operate.” -Jane Byrne
Kentucky’s willingness to gamble massively on high-risk alternative investments for its pensions has made the state an easy mark for Wall Street hucksters.
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Mother Jones has an excerpt from our new story Stray Bullet, with multimedia extras from the piece.
In the clip above, Tony Davis confesses to killing a boy in a drive-by shooting.
He said every meeting pretty much starts exactly the same way: ‘Well, of course we are all in favor of reform. We have some concerns.’ And as he defined it, concerns mean, like, ‘Well, we might like reform, but we don’t like this one that affects us.’
Journalist Gary Rivlin talks to Dave Davies about how government regulator Gary Gensler describes meetings with the lawyers and industry lobbyists who are intent on slowing the implementation of financial reforms intended by the Dodd-Frank bill.
Gary Rivilin, who wrote the article "How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank" for the May 20th issue of The Nation, tells Dave Davies about how the passage of a bill is just the first step in a long process of change when it comes to legislation:
It's a long and arduous process that just adds months and months, and so even though we're nearly three years out from Dodd-Frank, of those 398 rules requiring action by a regulator, only about 148 of them – that's about one third – have been finalized, in large part because we've created a process in Washington that has openness and fairness but, if you have mighty forces that have these battalions, they're able to really choke the process and slow it down.
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That sense of victory barely lasted the morning. The same financial behemoths that had fought so ferociously to block Dodd-Frank were not going to let the mere fact of the bill’s passage ruin their plans. “Halftime,” shrugged Scott Talbott, chief lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, a lobbying group representing 100 of the country’s largest financial institutions.
Gary Rivlin, "How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank", in the May 20, 2013 issue of The Nation. Rivlin will be on the show tomorrow talking about the article.