Topic: Richard Shelby

Things always get a little less awkward after the first date.. In an effort to show they can get along, members of the Senate and House will pair...
Under pointed questioning from Senate Republicans today, federal financial regulators admitted that they have not yet located about $1.2 billion in ...

Senator Shelby slams CFTC over MF Global

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday criticized the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's handling of MF Global's meltdown and said its chief is "evading" questions about his role in overseeing the company.Senator Richard Shelby ...

Senator Shelby slams CFTC for handling of MF Global

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday criticized the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's handling of MF Global's meltdown and said its chief is "evading" questions about his role in overseeing the company.Senator Richard Shelby ...

Senator seeks probe of CFTC handling of MF Global

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee is calling for a regulatory watchdog to investigate the oversight of now-bankrupt brokerage MF Global Holdings Ltd.Senator Richard Shelby wrote a letter to the inspector general of the Commodity Futures Trading ...
Mortgage brokers, many of whom originated deceptive loans that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis, are still supervised by a dysfunctional...

Banks and Boneheads

Posted on 09/24/11 at 7:02pm by Robert Hockett . As some of our readers know, I work just off Wall Street late each week. This past week that means...

Tornado relief legislation introduced

Victims of major natural disasters often get special tax consideration. But some members of Congress think that this year's incredibly destructive...
Forty-four Republican senators said Thursday they won't vote to confirm a director for the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...
Top lawmakers from the Senate Banking Committee have asked the Obama administration to quickly replace the outgoing Wall Street bailout watchdog....