June 11, 2010 Reading Time: < 1 minute

“Today begins the televised political theatre that Barney Frank has been waiting months for: the first public meeting of the House and Senate conferees on the two financial regulation bills. While there are a handful of important differences between the House and Senate bills, these differences are overshadowed by what the bills have in common. The most important, and tragic, commonality is that both bills ignore the real causes of the financial crisis and focus on convenient political targets.” Read more.

 “Congress Begins Conference on Financial Regulation”
Mark A. Calabria
Cato@Liberty, June 10, 2010.
Via the Cato Institute.
 
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