The Pros And Cons Of The Dodd-Frank Act

On June 16, 1933, President Roosevelt signed into law the widely debated Glass-Steagall Banking Act. Sponsored by Virginia’s U.S. Senator Carter Glass and Alabama’s U.S. Representative Henry Steagall, the Glass-Steagall Banking Act was one of the attempts to restore the American people’s confidence in the banking system. Congress knew the current banking system needed reform. They desired to restrict the use of bank credit for speculation and instead direct bank credit to more productive uses, such as agriculture, commerce, and industry.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, was created as a tool of financial reform in the legislative package that was authorized by the Dodd-Frank Act, but the law specifically includes terms that prohibit setting interest rate limits, which is contrary to the 36-percent limit that the CFPB is currently trying to mandate as a universal limit on short-term rates. The specifics of the Dodd-Frank Act, according to the www.dodd-frank-act.us, state that the legislation grants, "NO AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE USURY LIMIT" unless such a limit is first passed through due legal processes.

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which is commonly referred as the Dodd-Frank Act. This act was passed as a response to the Great Recession in order to prevent potential financial debacle in the future. This regulation has a significant impact on American financial services industry by placing major changes on the financial regulation and agencies since the Great Depression. This paper examines the history and impact of Dodd-Frank Act on American financial services industry.

ABSTRACT There are many analyses of the economic effects that regulations, in general, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act, in particular, have had on American business. This analysis looks at the effect that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has had on the American banking industry. The return on assets and return on equity were obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank for all SEC-registered and nonregistered banks for the period 2000

The legislation was repealed in 1999 when key players from the financial arena urged Congress to pass the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to reverse Glass-Steagall’s restrictions on bank securities (Heakal, 2003).

In 2007-2008 the US went into a recession, a financial crisis that has since then taken five years to rebuild. During that time millions of Americans were unemployed and faced many economic struggles which negatively impacted the real estate market causing a multitude of foreclosures. The reason for this recession was because there was no authority over banks and they were not being monitored properly. Banks were able to gamble with the finances of millions of people with no consequences towards their actions. The Dodd Frank Act Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was put into place to make sure that nothing like this ever happened again; The Dodd Frank Act implemented and set laws into place to make sure that banks and financial

Though the ACA was passed in 2010, it has been fought along the way through the courts, legislature and Congress. Specifically, Republican congressmen, governors, and candidates have steadily opposed it and have declared to repeal it. It is estimated that less than 50% of the American population are for the ACA. The ultimate goal of the ACA was to improve the health of Americans by decreasing the number of uninsured citizens and in the first year of the ACA, it is estimated that more than 10 million citizens were able to obtain health insurance. The ACA has removed several of the undesirable features of private insurance such as the rejection of health insurance coverage for those with pre-existing medical conditions. In addition, Medicare

Sen. Sarbanes's bill passed the Senate Banking Committee on the 18th of June 2002, by a vote of 17 to 4. On the 25th of June 2002, WorldCom revealed it had overstated its earnings by more than $3.8 billion during the past 15 months, primarily by wrongly accounting for its operating costs. Sen. Sarbanes introduced Senate Bill 2673 to the full Senate on the same day and it passed 97 to0 less than three weeks later on the 15th of July

The Glass Steagall Act was passed on 1933, which is also known as The Banking Act to tighten regulation on the way banks did their business. This act was written as an emergency measure when about 5,000 banks failed during the Great Depression. Banks mostly failed because of the way they would invest with money. The act prohibits banks from investing money on investments that turn out to be risky. Banks could no longer sell securities or bonds. The act also created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect the deposits of individuals, which is still used to this date. The FDIC in this era insures your deposits in your bank up to $250,000. This gave the public confidence again to deposit their money in the bank. In 1933

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In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd-Frank Act is a bill that was put into place to protect Consumers, Investors, Businesses and many other business related sources from repeating another financial crisis. The main purpose of the Dodd-Frank Act is to highlight all the flaws from the previous financial crisis and put preventions into place to reframe from the loss of 8 million jobs to happen again. Throughout I will highlight important proposals within the Dodd- Frank Act to breakdown and explain the reasons behind the development. To explain more fully the basic motivation behind each of these proposals is quite simple actually, starting with Consumer Protections with Authority and Independence.

Q. 1. What were the major factors that led to the recent financial crisis? How did we get here?

From my assessment the possibility for you to consent to a state government as well as a national government is futile. Although the state and national have separate powers, they are capable of challenging each other. Texas is constantly disputing the federal government rules as a consequence; one would have to pick a side. To avoid a financial crisis, in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act was passed, which meant they could liquidate from large financial institutions in Texas. A lawsuit was filed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott due to it, allowing unelected officials’ power over Texas funds without approval. Each having convincing reasoning behind their decisions, one could not comply with both sides considering you are either persuaded by the

September 15, 2008, the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, and collapse of the world’s largest insurance company AIG, triggered a global financial crisis. This major fallout was catastrophic; it cost the world tens of trillions of dollars, rendered 30 million people unemployed, and doubled the national debt of the United States. Unfortunately for everyone else, this crisis was caused by an out of control industry. Since the 1980’s this industry has been feeding from the rise of increasingly severe crisis’, each one causing more and more damage. The investment banks went public and stock and bond workers on Wall Street were getting rich. In 1982, the Reagan Administration deregulated savings and loan companies allowing them to make risky investments with their depositor’s money. By the end of the decade, hundreds of these loan companies had failed, costing taxpayers $240 billion dollars and their life savings; otherwise known as a “bank heist”. An example of one of these investment loan companies was Ctitigroup (the largest financial services company in the world). There was an ongoing merger in 1998 between Citicorp and Travelers that violated the Glass- Steagall act, a law passed after the Great Depression so there could be no risky banking activity. Alan Greenspan under the Reagan Administration, ignored it and said nothing. In fact, a year later, with the urging

Government intervention could put downside pressure on the stock. Possible government intervention increases risk, because the government is a big customer and has a history of making adverse changes to the operating ability of companies in every industry. A government regulated industry increases political risk, because government actions may not be in the best interest of citizen of that particular country. Governments are usually inefficient with spending money.