Word: arguments
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...financial and credit catastrophe that ruined the international banking system. Leaving aside whether regulation can, in and of itself, make the financial markets less risky, increasing the power of regulatory bodies costs almost nothing in terms of creating new laws and staffing oversight agencies. There should be very little argument on that point. Every nation coming to the G-20 summit can afford to further regulate its banks and financial markets. However, there has been little time allocated for discussion of the costs of financial regulation...
...other argument against excess regulation is that if the capital markets are prevented from efficiently trading and creating capital, then they do not really exist as capital markets any more. With the economy in such tough shape discouraging traders from creating liquid markets or the credit default swaps market from efficiently insuring risk may do more to hurt a system that is trying to build new capital more than it helps...
...Lost in the argument about why there was not risk management in place when a bank like Citigroup moved to the brink of collapse was the fact that Citigroup had a committee of its board of directors charged with monitoring the risks taken by the bank. Citi also had an army of risk managers who probably reported to an executive who also ran a part of the company that was taking risks. Of course, it is fair to assume that the bank also had a chief financial officer who had an excellent idea of what Citi had on its balance...
...KXNO • profanity-drenched argument between two sports broadcasters is inadvertently broadcast...
...been biased against him. While being held at the Taipei Detention Center, Chen has been drawing public attention to his cause through extended hunger strikes, writing poetry, and publishing his memoir. And some, including Chuang Rui-hsiung, a criminal procedure lawyer in Taipei, agree with the former leader's argument. "People should be treated innocent until proven guilty," Chuang says. "They shouldn't treat Chen differently." Chen's loyal supporters also believe that his case has been politicized...