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Last Thursday, I attended former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s timely and stimulating lecture on banking reform. Spitzer exhibited a thorough understanding of the causes of the recent financial crisis and laid out a convincing case for robust regulation of America??s troubled banking system. Among other things, he concluded that the sheer size of American banks was a major contributor to the financial crisis and continues to present a systemic risk to the economy...
Reversing Gramm-Leach-Bliley would help prevent future financial crises before they start, improve the efficiency of America??s banks, and protect taxpayers from future bailouts. Instead of being too big to fail, America??s banks ought to be small enough to succeed...
...some ways, this was a revolutionary development; the chords of bluegrass and southern blues were foreign to the ears of many of the young Northeasterners. At the same time, though, this was a return to the traditions of America??s rich musical past. “There was certainly intellectual interest in the music, but also just a, ‘Wow, you don’t hear this kind of music around Cambridge. You don’t hear people talking about coal mining or tenant farming,’” said Millie Rahn, Folklorist...
...Watch out, America??s politicians,” she wrote, “students are back on the streets...
Jeremy L. Haber, a first year student at the Law School, is one of four finalists remaining in the Post’s “America??s Next Great Pundit” contest, the winner of which will write 13 weekly op-ed columns on a topic of his choice...