The problems of Asia's financial firms are due not to too much competition, but to over-protection and cronyism, which have encouraged shoddy lending and poor cost-control.
They rarely have official press passes - though, in the heat of confrontation, these sometimes offer little protection against over-zealous security forces.
The subliminal message from their questioning of key witnesses seems to be that they will recommend some pretty robust measures to clean up British banking - because they are not convinced that enough has been done after scandals over the mis-selling of Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) and interest swaps to address the problem of serious misconduct.
Call it a speculative mania if you must, but zero interest rates are forcing otherwise cautious cash savers the world over to seek out hard-asset protection for their wealth.
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Mr Beshear directed Kentucky to join a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over its coal-mining regulations.
The trial goes to the heart of the escalating controversy over how much patent protection pricey brand-name drugs should get.
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The bank, along with most of the other major UK High Street lenders, has also been found culpable in recent years of mis-selling unnecessary payment protection insurance to mortgage borrowers, and overly complex, over-priced interest rate and currency hedges to small businesses.
Representatives from the CME Group, NYSE Euronext, the Consumer Federation of America, the Managed Funds Association and the AFL-CIO will all be there to talk about over-the-counter derivatives, the role of intermediaries and hedge funds, consumer protection and hedge funds.
Investment banks must have a dizzying influence over the regulator to win special protection from short-selling, particularly as they act as prime brokers for almost all short-sellers.
Burdened by debt from over-expansion, more than ten have filed for bankruptcy protection in the last two years.
The proposal to cut the need for Criminal Records Bureau checks for adults working under supervision with children is part of the red tape-cutting Protection of Freedoms Bill currently being pored over in the Lords.
With all this free trade and trade barriers falling, it's really hard for an individual like me with a global-scope patent to file all over the world and get patent protection everywhere, and having to go overseas to fight infringement.
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Second, environmentalists have been effective at stopping timber sales because courts and agency officers have recognised consistently that the Forest Service, in catering mainly to logging over the decades, has failed to comply with scientifically sound resource-protection laws that govern forest management.
In 1994, police dealt with 135 cases of family violence, and gave protection to 284 victims -- an 89% increase over four years.
These are legal proceedings where someone is appointed as a decision-maker over a person who is determined to be in need of protection, typically for being legally incompetent.
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The FSA presided over an era dogged by mis-selling scandals, including that of payment protection insurance (PPI) where people were sold loan protection that they either did not need or could not claim on.
For years they were caught up in disputes over whether the air at ground zero was really toxic -- the Environmental Protection Agency long claimed it was safe -- and whether the illnesses could be linked to the attack site.
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Martin Hoskins, a data-protection consultant, worries that intermediaries will encourage consumers to hand over large volumes of personal information without clear limits on its use.
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Yet Obama's Wall Street Journal op-ed today, which announced the executive order, utterly glossed over the Environmental Protection Agency's C02 rules, the FCC's unauthorized net neutrality push and the torrent of rules yet to come from the health care and financial reform bills.
Emphasizing individual responsibility over state intervention, the Free Democrats want to ease the country's strict job-protection laws, reduce subsides and, most importantly, cut marginal tax rates.
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The Trades Union Congress says Britain's policy of allowing companies to opt-out of the European Union Working Time Directive, meaning people to work over the 48-hour a week limit on a "voluntary" basis, meant the protection it offered could be circumvented.
So plaintiff lawyers typically retreat to consumer-protection laws, which are vague enough in some states to allow a lawsuit over almost anything.
The Dodd-Frank Act established a Consumer Finance Protection Agency with little to no congressional oversight over its sweeping powers to impose new regulations.
And then you get the state of environmental protection saying basically - stop sprawl, don't spread the housing all over the place, don't build new infrastructure, concentrate.
The MP said his Support and Protection for Elderly People and Adults at Risk of Abuse Bill was the "over-arching and comprehensive" legislation that was "vital" to "reinforce" existing policies.
Liberals tend to favor a strong central government, except when that government threatens to steamroller strong state consumer-protection laws, or the ability of class-action lawyers to pursue cases over consumer products.
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Among other things, it sets up a Financial Stability Oversight Council to oversee systemic risk in the economy, creates an independent consumer financial protection bureau housed within the Federal Reserve and establishes exchanges for the trading of over-the-counter derivatives.
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That is, as an over-populated island we allow far too much housing to be built in flood plains and provide inadequate protection for those in flood endangered areas.
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