New Banking Regulations … Same Old Story
Posted on March 12, 2010 at 05:00 AM EST
U.S. banks, drunk with greed, drove the nation's economy to the brink of financial Armageddon. To save U.S. banks from losing their license to dangle the nation's economy over a cliff, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the country's elected elite threw them a bailout party and gifted them with the accounting- world's version of "Transformers. " Unfortunately, new banking regulations aimed at solving these problems are little more than the same old song and dance that forced the bailout - and stuck U.S. taxpayers with a multi-trillion-dollar tab. To see how reformers have failed to fix the banking system, please read on...