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What's needed? At the U.N. on Thursday, institutional investors from the U.S., Europe and Australia who represent more than $13 trillion in assets called for Congress and other policymakers to take swift action, principally through a cap-and-trade bill, which would limit the amount of carbon industry can produce and allow manufacturers to buy and swap credits, so that those who come in under the limit can sell polluting permits to those who exceed it. It's speculative capitalism with a bright green tint. For the idea to work, the private-investment community needs TLC from government policy...
When politicians began discussing similar restrictions at the federal level, nervous investors sold off the pawnshop stocks. When the most restrictive proposal - a 36% cap proposed by Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois - failed to win support, the shares rebounded. However, the Senator has reintroduced the bill in the current session of Congress, and it could ultimately find its way into financial-industry reform. More worrisome to investors is the potential power of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, part of the financial-reform bill recently passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate. Under the current versions...
...risky behavior on Wall Street. Among the proposals that have been promoted by President Barack Obama and Congress are a systemic regulator that would be on guard for markets and participants that were creating unseen risks in the financial system. Last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would create a new agency to protect consumers and regulate products like mortgages and credit cards. Even the Independent Community Bankers Association, which has fought new regulations of the financial sector, says the government needs to do more to rein in the nation's largest banks...
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