Why do you feel broker regs would have done anything to prevent the financial bubble?
I will explain it YET again.
Before Gramm leach bliely act of 1999 banks COULD NOT sell securities.
after the bill was signed into law banks could sell securities.
The gramm leach bliely act had rules on WHO could be a broker of these securities.
In the past brokers had to have licenses.
Because the Securities and exchanges commitee ( SEC) which had a head appointed by Bush (Mr Cox) the SEC unders Bush fought back the implimentation of these broker rules.
This meant that the banks could all of the sudden sell securities and had NO rules covering who could be a broker and wether they had to act in a manner that was honest to keep their licsense from being revoked.
Now the banks could hire whomever they wanted to be a broker and train them however they wanted to train them.
These NEW brokers were under NO pressure to make sure their dealings met a certain level of honesty so they could retain their licsense.
The only ones they had to obey were their bank employers.
They did what they were told to do so they could keep their jobs.
IF they had to have a liscence to upkeep they would have told the banks NO when they told them to sell sub prime tainted securities to unsuspecting investors.
If they had said yes they would have risked jail and losing their licsence which would mean they would lose their jobs.
The little guy would have rebelled to save himself.
without the rules the little guy could only save themselves by doing the bidding of the boss.
The banks were making big money by hiding their sub prime from securities investors.
Its why they wrote so many even though they were NOT required to by law.
they were making money by cheating.
Look at the law suits.
with no broker rules there was NO way to keep these banks from doing this cheating.
That is what the Bush people wanted.
unfettered markets by gaming our LAWS.
they got their unfettered markets and we the people got what unfettered markets always produce.
a mountain of shit