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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony@Pacific & TRUTHSEEKER Expose Crims & Scammers!!!

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To: StockDung who wrote (5098)2/7/2008 1:09:20 AM
From: ravenseye  Read Replies (2) of 5673
 
Regulators
Credit Crisis: Where Was The SEC?
Liz Moyer, 02.06.08, 6:00 AM ET
Six years after the lessons of Enron and a decade after Long-Term Capital collapsed, regulators still can't seem to blunt the damage complex securities can have on financial markets. Why?

It's a fair question. Investment banks, mortgage brokers and ratings agencies are all being blamed for the subprime mortgage bubble and its sudden and stunning demise. But little has been said about the watchdogs at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the regulators who oversee the activities of the banks. They have the power to stop fraud in the business of selling the complex credit derivatives, and they have jurisdiction over whether the complex securities sold by the banks met suitability requirements for the investors who bought them. Yet time and again, they've failed to do so.....
forbes.com
...Regulators are taking a hard look at how banks structured, priced and sold mortgage-laden securities, but by the estimate of some it's too little and too late. "I don't think all the king's horses and all the king's men will put this together again," says Gary Aguirre, a former SEC lawyer.

remember all the reporters who reported about thetruthseeker being a mortgage broker? why didn't those reporters publish corrections?
lma(zz)o while I solicit the truth ...
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