Indeed, I wished back in September of 2007, as Robert talked about, the speech that the President gave at the NASDAQ -- the President said it doesn't make you anti-capital markets to be for more robust oversight of financial markets because we fundamentally need public trust in our financial institutions for them to succeed.
He did, though, support calls for more international cooperation in the oversight of financial markets.
So here's a chance to make amends, a chance to actually do something that will protect consumers by increasing oversight of energy markets.
In addition, lawmakers' recent pressure on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to increase its oversight of energy markets might help curb any speculation contributing to the price run-up.
First, the Tory paper is vague about what will happen to the FSA's oversight of regulated markets and listed companies, and its powers to investigate market abuse and insider trading.
Now, the good news is my administration has already taken several actions to step up oversight of oil markets and close dangerous loopholes that were allowing some traders to operate in the shadows.
Among them: A shutdown would lead to a substantial reduction of personnel at the SEC, hampering regulatory oversight of the financial markets.
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Regulatory oversight of the financial markets will be ramped up, with the creation of a new "Council of Regulators" that will bring together the heads of the various financial watchdogs.
Senators on Capitol Hill Thursday heard testimony from financial regulators, mortgage lenders and even a few unfortunate borrowers in what appears to be an effort to stoke more regulatory oversight of the mortgage markets rather than legislation.
Instead of over-funding and over-regulating critical infrastructure, liberalize networks like transportation, electricity, and telecommunications, and get spectrum out of the oversight of regulators so secondary markets can price, allocate and optimize it.
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As described by the SEC, Dell's actions were failures of strategy, ethics and leadership resulting from slick behavior, questionable board oversight, a lack of robust public accounting oversight, and absence of meaningful penalties by the capital markets regulatory system.
In my opinion, since 1989, the SEC has largely abandoned the meaningful oversight of systemic risk to the markets from high frequency trading, algorithms, and the like.
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There, a lack of proper oversight and transparency nearly led to the collapse of the financial markets and a full-scale Depression.
It took a number of years of flawed policy decisions, of an absence of appropriate oversight and regulation, of unfortunate risky behavior in our financial markets to precipitate the economic free fall that we all experienced in 2008 and 2009.
He places some of the blame for the meltdown in the credit markets on a failure of government oversight.
And today, President Obama announced a new series of steps to strengthen oversight over those markets -- while asking lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at curbing illegal behavior and holding the people who manipulate markets accountable.
The Wall Street reforms I signed into law are helping bring energy markets out of the shadows and under real oversight.
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Governor Romney, even before his sharp right turn to win the GOP presidential nomination, apparently was far too trusting of markets to solve problems with little or no government oversight.
But his primary concern is that, in some areas, a turnover of real estate owned (REO) properties to private hands, without proper oversight, could simply lead to a stock of neglected rentals in already depressed metro markets.
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