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Informationen zum Autor DAVID SKEEL is the S. Samuel Arsht Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is author of Icarus in the Boardroom: The Fundamental Flaws in Corporate America and Where They Came From ; Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America ; and numerous articles on bankruptcy, corporate law, and other topics. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, Books & Culture, and elsewhere. Klappentext The New Financial Dea l UNDERSTANDING THE DODD-FRANK ACT AND ITS (UNINTENDED) CONSEQUENCES After watching the government bail out Bear Stearns and AIG in 2008, and pump well over one hundred billion dollars into Citigroup, Bank of America, and the other largest banks the same year, Americans realized that the existing regulatory framework did not work. The Dodd-Frank Act, which President Obama signed into law in July 2010, was Washington's answer. The legislation created an entirely new set of rules for both the instruments and the institutions of contemporary finance. Although the reforms were desperately needed, they were drafted by the same people who designed the bailouts of 2008, and it shows. In The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences , David Skeel explains where the legislation came from, tracing its assumptions back to the 2008 crisis and offering an inside account of the key moments in the legislative process. He analyzes each of the main components of the Dodd-Frank Act, explaining how they will work and showing that the new regulatory framework depends on precisely the qualities that Americans found so offensive about the bailouts of 2008: special treatment of the largest financial institutions and ad hoc intervention in the event of trouble. Skeel's assessment is not entirely pessimistic, however. He argues that a few features of the Dodd-Frank Act are genuine improvements, such as its regulation of financial derivatives, and he outlines several simple bankruptcy reforms that would curb the worst excesses of the new partnership between the government and the largest financial institutions. Zusammenfassung What can we expect from our era's New Deal? To answer this question, The New Financial Deal will begin with an inside account of the legislative process, then outline and access its key components: the new framework for regulating derivatives, the regulation of banking and systemic risk, and the new resolution regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword ix Introduction xi A Few Major Characters xv Chapter 1 The Corporatist Turn in American Regulation 1 The Path to Enactment 3 The Two Goals of the Dodd-Frank Act 4 A Brief Tour of Other Reforms 6 Two Themes That Emerge 8 Fannie Mae Effect 11 Covering Their Tracks 12 Is There Anything to Like? 14 Part I Relearning the Financial Crisis Chapter 2 The Lehman Myth 19 The Stock Narrative 20 Lehman in Context 23 Lehman's Road to Bankruptcy 26 Lehman in Bankruptcy 29 Bear Stearns Counterfactual 31 Road to Chrysler 33 Chrysler Bankruptcy 35 General Motors "Sale" 38 From Myths to Legislative Reality 39 Part II The 2010 Financial Reforms Chapter 3 Geithner, Dodd, Frank, and the Legislative Grinder 43 The Players 44 TARP and the Housing Crisis 47 Road to an East Room Signing 49 Channeling Brandeis: The Volcker Rule 54 The Goldman Moment 56 Chapter 4 Derivatives Reform: Clearinghouses and the Plain-Vanilla Derivative 59 Basic Framework 61 Derivatives and the New Finance 63 The Stout Alternative 66 New Clearinghouses and Exchanges 68 Regulatory Dilemmas of Clearinghouse...
