... Features & Commentary XChange Financial Firms and the Blame Game. ... Relaxed government
regulation of financial firms undoubtedly played a role. ...

... MILLER: On top of that, many financial firms used leverage strategies to try to
magnify gains. The SEC had limited brokerage firm leverage to 10 to 15 times ...

... The key principles that we have to have are new clear rules of the road for financial
firms, tougher forms of financial supervision, protection of consumers ...

... Swaps and Derivatives Association at the Atlanta Fed's 2007 Financial Markets
Conference ... Miller Tabak is an "institutional trading firm." The firm's chief bond ...

... has also championed a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency ... Planned layoffs at
US firms fell to ... according to outplacement-consulting firm Challenger, Gray & ...

... The largest financial firms made out under the government's asset guarantee program. ...
Now all big financial firms have an implicit guarantee by Uncle Sam. ...

... a knee-jerk reaction to the financial crisis. As you may recall, last March, the
House overwhelmingly approved a 90% tax on bonuses paid to firms that accepted ...

... More. Financial Firms and the Blame Glame. ... Relaxed government regulation of financial
firms undoubtedly played a role. So did irresponsible homebuyers... ...

... More. Financial Firms and the Blame Glame. ... Relaxed government regulation of financial
firms undoubtedly played a role. So did irresponsible homebuyers... ...

... Tom Shaw runs the family firm out of a converted home in Dixon, Illinois ... Not too
long ago, few people worried about financial firms being "too big to fail," but ...