Congress – Committees Senate COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS  banking.senate.gov/ c-span.org/organization/?60979/Banking-Housing-Urban-Affairs SUBCOMMITTEE ON SECURITIES, INSURANCE, AND INVESTMENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION House Financial Services Committee financialservices.house.gov/ –  c-span.org/organization/?2106/Financial-Services Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs FINANCIAL SERVICES MODERNIZATION SUBCOMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS SUPERVISION,, REGULATION AND INSURANCE HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES SUBCOMMITTEE: SIGNIFICANCE OF…

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Brooksley Born 1996-1999 – Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – 08/26/96 – 06/01/99 2009 07 –  FCIC – July 2009, Nancy Pelosi appointed Brooksley Born as a commissioner to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). 1998 0724 – GOV (House) – Testimony Of Brooksley Born, Chairperson Commodity Futures Trading Commission Concerning The…

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CFMA – Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 Commodity Exchange Act en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000 The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that ensured financial products known as over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives remained unregulated. It was signed into law on December 21, 2000 by President Bill Clinton. Commodity Exchange Act (ch. 545, 49 Stat. 1491, enacted June 15, 1936) is a federal act passed in 1936…

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Enron Kenneth Lay Jeff Skilling Andrew Fastow Sherron Watkins 2002 0201 – Powers Report – 218p To the Members of the Board of Directors Enron Corporation. Enclosed is a copy of the Report of the Special Investigation Committee. 2003 – Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Bethany McLean 2002 0224 – GOV -The Fall…

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Mark to Market Accounting 2012 0105 – OFR – A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics – 165p (p19) – Sapra (2008) considers issues arising from historical and mark-to-market accounting for both insurance companies and banks. 2008 – AP – Do accounting measurement regimes matter? A discussion of mark-to-market accounting and liquidity pricing,” by Haresh Sapra,…

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Pete Stark Pete Stark (D-CA) 1973-2013 – US House 1987 10 – GAO – Taxation of Single Premium Life Insurance – Briefing Report to the Honorable Fortney H. (Pete) Stark, House of Representatives – Pete Stark (D-CA) – 38p   Stark-Gradison proposal Ways and Means  1985 – GOV – Beck Traditionally, the investment aspects of…

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PBGC – Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pbgc.gov/ (p1) –  Currently, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is some $333 million plus in the red, although there is still a cash flow. —  Opening Statement of Senator Don Nickles, (R-OK) 1983 0614 – GOV (Senate) – Single-Employer Pension Plan Termination Insurance Improvements Act of 1983  – [PDF-144p-archive.org, VIDEO-?] …

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JFK – John F. Kennedy 1947-1953 – US House – Massachusetts 1953-1960 – US Senate – Massachusetts  1961-1963 1122 – President of the United States (35th), assassination  1961 0421 – NEWS CONFERENCE 10 – By President John F. Kennedy, State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C. – jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-press-conferences/news-conference-10 Third, I am pleased to announce that the Veterans Administration…

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