Donald Trump is Breaking His Promise to be Tough on Wall Street
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Source: Hufgington Post Blog
If there was ever doubt that President Donald Trumps tough talk on big banks was an empty show, his first 12 days in office have put it to rest.
Trump is governing like a run-of-the-mill, deregulating Wall Street crony, despite his populist campaign rhetoric: His partys platform pledged to return to the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which broke up big financial institutions by separating investment and commercial banking; he vowed to close a tax provision that saves private equity managers billions of dollars; he lambasted his opponent for her ties to Goldman Sachs, and he assailed the banks CEO in an election ad.
Dodd-Frank is a disaster, he said. Were going to be doing a big number on Dodd-Frank.
Tossing out Dodd-Frank would mean gutting huge swathes of rules restricting big banks, including intricate capital standards and the annual stress tests regulators use to make sure banks wont need to be bailed out to the independent Consumer Financial Bureau.
Read more: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5890c587e4b02772c4e98b79?
UPDATE: Feb. 3 ― President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Friday that halt the Obama administrations conflict of interest rule for retirement savings and order a review of the 2010 financial reform rules meant to make banks more stable and less likely to need bailouts.
Penn Voter
(247 posts)at Goldman Sachs and sending it to Washington DC
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)And mot much we can do about it.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Will he fire Richard?
Warpy
(111,174 posts)His first appointment was a Goldman Sachs guy to fuck up the economy for the sole benefit of Wall Street.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)A Goldman Sachs crony .... with well known history of being involved with benefiting GSachs
and a wife who has worked there for near 2 decades.
Doom!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)when it came to investigating and prosecuting Wall Street.
Trump apparently is aware he is a 1 term President. So he has decided to make the former lack of indictments of Wall Street even worse, by being outright reprehensible.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)of the electoral college voter.
Midnight Writer
(21,719 posts)I promise I will pretend to be surprised when "America Goes To War" is headline.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Know what you mean
inanna
(3,547 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)No one gave Wall Street any thought
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)This is not breaking news. It is analysis/opinion