Markets Scream Through Dodd’s Stifling Embrace: Kevin Hassett

Monday, May 24th, 2010

It wasn’t a coincidence that equity markets posted their biggest drop in more than a year the day the U.S. Senate passed its sweeping financial reform bill. Yes, fears about the spread of Greece’s financial crisis are hurting markets worldwide, but in the U.S. on May 20, the big news ...

Dodd Would Expand Fed Power

Monday, March 15th, 2010

In the most sweeping overhaul of financial rules since the 1930s, Sen. Christopher Dodd would let regulators break up large firms, ban proprietary trading, and oversee derivatives

Dodd Would Let Fed ‘Unwind’

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd unveiled a plan to overhaul financial rules and give the Federal Reserve power to break up big firms that threaten U.S. economic stability

Dodd to Unveil Own Financial Rules Overhaul

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said he will release his version of legislation to overhaul financial rules, signaling that talks on a compromise have collapsed

Dodd Scraps Obama’s Consumer Agency, Proposes Treasury Bureau

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd abandoned the Obama administration’s stand- alone consumer financial agency and is proposing a bureau in the Treasury Department, seeking to overcome Republican opposition to legislation overhauling Wall Street regulations.