Forum Post: Expansive article Explaining financial recession and Proposing Goals
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 17, 2011, 8:39 p.m. EST by OnePeople
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Read: http://seekingalpha.com/article/299918-occupy-wall-street-thoughts-on-an-agenda?ifp=0&source=email_authors_alerts and understand...
GOALS
1.Regulate CDS as insurance, with a requirement of insurable interest for the buyer, and adequate capital for the seller.
2.Reinstate Glass-Steagall
3.Impose Position Limits, both individual and collective, sufficient to maintain to volume of commodities futures trades in some meaningful relationship with the amount of the actual commodity in circulation or production.
4.Outlaw synthetic securities
5.Restrict MBS and other securitizations to simple structures, with wide tranches.
6.Extend the statute of limitations for securities fraud and misrepresentation in the Securities and Securities Exchange Acts to seven years.
7.Impose obligations on market makers and liquidity providers sufficient to compensate for the privileges and exemptions they receive.
(and my own) 8. Eliminate corporate campaign contributions
Those are some very good Ideas above!
Here are some other considerations H.R. 1098 (Free Competition in Currency Act) H.R. 1496 (Federal Reserve Transparancy Act) H.R. 2768 (Cancelation of Public Debt to Federal Reserve) H.R. 1094 (Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act) S 202 (Senate Federal Reserve Transpanancy Act)
But in the mean time i suggest watching this charming video: (Quantitative Easing Explained) A Cute Fuzzy Little Animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkSk&feature=player_embedded
Please read article and put out what you think about the goals