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May 23, 2018
This year marks a decade since the financial crisis. yesterday congress vote to roll back rules adopted in its wake. the house vote in favor of a bipartisan senate bill to ease rules on community banks like bb&t and suntrust. republicans and moderate democrats say dodd-frank hurts these banks. strict regulations stifle lending they say. it raises the threshold for federal oversight from $50 billion to $250 billion, leaving only the biggest banks -- jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, bank, they will fa...
May 23, 2018
When they were the ones who caused who caused the financial crisis they werent the ones making all those risky investments those were the bigger systemically important banks but the criticism with these new rules now could be that that category has become too narrow who are the systemically important banks now under the old rules all banks with assets more than fifty billion dollars had to follow strict regulations relating to systemic risk now that could have been regulation that was too widely...
May 23, 2018
>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. primary results are coming in from arkansas, kentucky, texas and georgia. gainesville, georgia, tonight were all eyes are on an intense governors race. we will start there. hello, jonathan. >> high matt, shannon. right now im at the watch party for casey cagle, a leading candidate in this race. you can see they are clearing out right now because it was a very good night for them. casey cagle coming in first in a five way race in the g.o.p. primary for the ge...
May 23, 2018
Negotiating with china and envisions a large fine against >> shannon: this is a fox news the company, new management, alert. strict security and requirement primary results are coming cte by a large percentage of shannon: a fox news alert, primary results coming in from arkansas, kentucky, texas and components from american georgia. companies. shannon: donald trump heads to gainesville, georgia, all eyes on an intense governors race. new york tomorrow to discuss the deadly ms 13 gained. he has b...
May 23, 2018
Global financial crisis hit. they voted to ease restrictions on thousands of small and medium size banks that had been enacted as part of the 2010 dodd-frank law. 33 democrats supported that legislation which cleared the senate earlier this year. among rule changes, the measure raises the threshold to $250 billion from $50 billion under which banks are deemed too big to fail, believe that or not. the banks will not have to undergo stress tests or submit living wills, designed to prevent financia...
May 23, 2018
Saw in 2008 would not happen again. and it sought to attack the principal problem lawmakers believe led to the crisis in the first place. the growth and proliferation of too big to fail banks. the big ones. to that end, dodd-frank laid out significant reforms increased the amount of money banks must hold on to giving the banks a cushion to avoid loan losses and future downturns. and subject to regulatory environments. so what does it the new regulation do it raises the threshold from $50 billion...
May 22, 2018
And pretty digestible walkabout what impeachment means and where it comes from, it comes with a note of political caution from you that, one, democrats shouldnt be rushing down the road of impeachment. you give an interesting take on what you think might qualify as a high crime or misdemeanor, the threshold for articles of impeachment and you say abuse of power may be something that has to be focused on. take us through the case. >> well, the basic point and its clear from what the framers said ...
May 22, 2018
To show up to the next russia hearing where the cameras are rolling the whole time. bret. >> bret: peter, moments ago the house passed legislation to ease banking rules, essentially a reform of the dodd-frank law. what do we know about the bill thats actually now headed to the presidents desk? >> its making life easier for smaller banks in this country. after the financial crisis with the dodd-frank regulations, the feds put the strictest regulations on banks that were worth $50 billion or more....
May 22, 2018
The testimony weve heard from admiral rogers and others, hes not interest in cyberor communication security. there are voice cellular intercept systems around washington, d.c. which are being run by hostile intelligence agencies. theyre not just inside embass beatses. i might haveself have used systems that looked like briefcases or, you know, laptops and can be left alone remotely and operated from foreign countries to pinpoint where he is, and if possible mimic a cell tower, lower the threshol...
May 21, 2018
Some kind of formal demand that the president threatening to make tomorrow. im concerned that it potentially goes down the path of responding to an unfounded allegation and then the department of justice taking some kind of action upon that. so i understand why rod rosenstein, why the justice department spokesperson issued a statement today saying that they were going to task the inspector general with determining whether or not that investigation needed to be expanded to accommodate the preside...