Entries tagged "Arthur Levitt"
Bernard Madoff kept his friends close and apparently securities regulators even closer. That may be one answer to why any suspicions about Madoff may have been damped. ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission will be a key regulator as Washington continues to restructure itself in response to the expanding financial crisis. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has called for a combination of the agency and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, a key part of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's blueprint for regulatory reform. Whether the agencies do combine, it won't be under Cox's watch, as he'll be leaving after President-elect Barack Obama assumes the White House in January. So who might oversee such a change? ...
Clinton-era SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr. is keeping himself quite busy as a Washington wise man....
Our former regulators speak. In The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, former Securities and Exchange Commission chief Arthur Levitt weighs in on the ongoing crisis, particularly on what even Levitt seems to think is ill-timed and misbegotten actions by regulators, including the SEC, in response to the mess. And Monday in the Financial Times, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan unspooled his characteristically wandering prose to, well, argue the same point, though from a very different ideological location. ...
