Business owners in Fernley provided me and senior USDA representatives with valuable feedback in a number of areas, including the need for more access to capital and regulation reform.
Now for the real task: creating long-lasting stability in the financial system by tightening regulation and increasing capital for all banks.
Some 64% of the survey group see an increased threat of regulation for the private equity and venture capital industry if Obama wins.
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It would be very silly indeed bank regulation that required the same capital provisioning for both of them.
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However, that goal should be achieved outside of housing finance, through appropriate stabilizing measures by the Federal Reserve and through better prudential regulation, and especially higher capital requirements for large systemic financial institutions.
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But it is, shall one say, a bit of a stretch to turn his argument for temporary capital controls in a country facing a crisis such as Malaysia's into an argument for massive re-regulation of the world economy.
In an industry unusually buffeted by innovation, capital-spending shifts and regulation, nothing is for certain.
But the pendulum of capital-markets regulation in America has swung in one direction for so long that when it started to reverse course, it was bound to do so with a vengeance.
This is why it is so disappointing and frustrating that the Internal Revenue Service is creating grave risks for the American economy by pushing a regulation that would drive a significant slice of this foreign capital to other nations.
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Until they accept the case for the sort of pre-emptive insurance outlined in this report tighter regulation, bigger capital cushions, perhaps more separation between different kinds of banking the clock will continue to tick towards the next financial crisis.
Financial regulation was supposed to clean up the banking system and level the playing field for consumers trying to access capital.
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