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A survey of 37 economists conducted by the University of Chicago in 2014, for example, found that nearly all believed that without the stimulus, the unemployment rate would have risen higher than it did.” In addition to this, President Obama strategized new regulations to protect consumers and to prevent another financial crisis. In 2009 and 2010, he signed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and the Consumer Protection Act into law. The CCARD Act restricted and obligated interest rates on credit card companies and obligated them to enact transparent policies. The Dodd-Frank created the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which could disintegrate banks if it was possible to fail for any reason including but not limited to subprime loans.

“This bill is a sham and we should dispense with it as quickly as possible,” quoted by Harry Reid. There has been a bill that has been passed through congress. They did it to try to prevent more economic crisis. But, it didn't work as well as they thought the bill will work. It is not doing anything but making the Federal Reserve more worse. Many people rather commit

The Federal Government needs to make sure to enforce strict guidelines on who can and cannot be accepted for a home loan, and not allow big investors to borrow excessive money at low interest rates to inflate the investor’s financial advantage. If the government starts allowing lower standards on mortgages, we are going to end up in the same catastrophe once again. In an article written by U.S. News and World Reports entitled Should the Federal Government Provide Support to the Mortgage Market?, the Federal government and the President attempted to get involved with the housing market. The passage implicated that Obama wanted to do away with federally funded conglomerates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and implement another type of government assisted program ("Should the Federal Government"). The program would prevent the mistakes made by Fannie and Freddie which created the original “housing bubble burst” ("Should the Federal Government"). One of the Senate bills suggests the government create “a new agency, the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation to replace Fannie and Freddie” ("Should the Federal

The purpose of Dodd-Frank Act is focused on restrictions on the banking sector; repealing Dodd-Frank will enable the financial market to return to a more volatile state. Moreover, the purpose of the Volker Rule is to prohibit banks from proprietary trading and restrict banks investments in hedge funds and private equity funds to prevent banks from high-risk trading activities. Therefore, from the lessons we all have learned during the 2008 financial crisis, we should not reduce government regulation in the financial sector. Instead, we should maintain our policies, continue to monitor the health of our economy, and prevent corporate misconduct. In addition, I will recommend Mr. Sessions continue to follow the Yates Memo to hold executive level individuals accountable for their misconduct. And I will also support Senator Warren's proposed 21st Century Class Steagall-Act of 2017. This act will protect our economy by restricting the bank's ability to engage in high-risk activities, reducing the size of "too big to fail" corporations, and minimizing the probability of government bailout. As one might be expected, my recommendation to Mr. Sessions will face a lot of setbacks. However, as a public servant, protect the law, maintain its fairness regardless the areas

One bill, the Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act, gives the president authority to require the same economic analysis from independent agencies that every president since Ronald Reagan required from executive branch agencies. This approach could improve independent agencies' analysis, as several studies show that executive branch agencies tend to produce more complete analysis than independent agencies.

The general objective of this policy paper is to deeply understand the latest and most influential financial reforms and the current financial environment in U.S through relatively comprehensive analysis with regard to the Dodd-Frank Act. In doing so, I move forward to provide some suggestions on improving the relevant legislature.

tool to curtail systemic risk. On the other hand, there are critics who see Dodd-Frank as a

The Dodd-Frank Act has a market-saving impact in numerous ways, including but not limited to: Starting a financial stability oversight council which actively monitors the stability of large firms whose bankruptcy could have a major negative impact on the economy, the act also provides money to assist with dismantling financial companies that have been placed in receivership, and prevents tax dollars from being used to prop up such firms, which previously was a large waste of tax payer money. It also stops predatory mortgage firms who lend to people who can't afford it, which helped cause the 2008 financial crisis*. While many Republicans will try to convince you that Wall Street’s heavy regulation is killing small banks and reducing the big

Named after the United States senator Christopher J. Dodd and the United States Representative Barney Frank, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed in to federal law by the president Barack Obama on July 21, 2010 in an attempt to prevent the events that led to the 2008 financial crisis of occurring again. Commonly known as the Dodd-Frank, the act brought the biggest changes to regulations on financial institutions since the reforms on regulations that followed the Great Depression. The act creates regulatory agencies for financial institutions, as well as an oversight council that is in charge of assessing systemic risk. The council also has the power of restraining the growth of large financial institutions

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a massive piece of financial reform legislation passed by the Obama administration in July 2010 as a response to the financial crisis of 2008. Named after sponsors U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd and U.S. Representative Barney Frank, the act's numerous provisions, spelled out over roughly 2,300 pages, are being implemented over a period of several years and are intended to decrease various risks in the U.S. financial system. The law was initially proposed by the Obama administration in June 2009, when the White House sent a series of proposed bills to Congress. A version of the legislation was introduced

“As a result of this movement, the banking laws changed. Congress began to investigate in more depth of the money used to support banks. Eventually Congress changed the level of liquidity of the banks once realizing they were too low.” This movement helped congress recognized a huge flaw in banking services. Also, an act was passed by Barack Obama on July 21, 2010. This act was known as the Dodd-Frank Act. “In the fall of 2008, a financial crisis of a scale and severity not seen in generations left millions of Americans unemployed and resulted in trillions in lost wealth. Our broken financial regulatory system was a principal cause of that crisis. It allowed some irresponsible lenders to use hidden fees and fine print to take advantage of consumers.To make sure that a crisis like this never happens again, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The most far reaching Wall Street reform in history, Dodd-Frank will prevent the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. The law also provides common-sense protections for American families, creating new consumer watchdog to prevent mortgage companies and pay-day lenders from exploiting

The report that influenced the CFPB's position on arbitration was flawed according to Representative Bill Huizenga, a Michigan Republican: “The report was criticized by a number of academics and industry for completely ignoring major pieces of data.” More than 80 representatives requested that the CFPB reopen the study, which is clearly one of the checks and balances that usually apply to the legislative process, but Director Cordray commented, "We’re now moving ahead with Congress’s direction to engage in policy intervention based on that.”

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a Democrat Congress and President Barack Obama passed the Dodd-Frank Act, which in turn unleashed a flood regulations and created the CFPB. While their intent of protecting the little guy is praiseworthy, the legislation had the opposite effect. Since its inception, the CFPB became

The court case also argues that this fiduciary rule which was released in April of 2016 have violated the first amendment right to free speech as it restricts communication between financial advisor and clients. The lawsuit also alleges that DOL have given them no adequate notice of the abrupt changes, thus, causing adverse consequences of its rule such as serious costs on the retirement savers as well as disruptive financial lost in the industry in general. This legal challenge also seeks to protect all other small investors, not harm them. But if the Department of Labor’s conflict of interest rule is implemented, it surely will, particularly small investors which it claims to

Levin, Carl, and Tom Coburn. United States. United States Senate. Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. Washington: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 2010.