The notion that financial markets are "underregulated" is laughable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He also indicated he supports the lifting of sanctions, which he says "would help" by bringing in more companies "with good corporate responsibility rules," which could help boost economic growth while minimizing problems associated with environmental degradation and other issues linked to underregulated development. ❋ Patrick Barta (2012)
It then moves to the opaque and underregulated finance system, where the banks were packaging products they didn't understand into securitized bonds and selling them off so quickly that they stopped worrying about how risky they were, and where regulators didn't see what was going on and thus didn't demand the banks hold enough capital to protect themselves from the inevitable reckoning. ❋ Ezra Klein (2011)
Malloch-Brown offers pointed analyses of feuding between the World Bank and the IMF, the insufficiency of mere "democracy" to make people happy, and even the world itself as an "underregulated hell". ❋ Unknown (2011)
The level of air pollution that companies can emit is underregulated in the United States, especially with regard to greenhouse gasses. ❋ Unknown (2010)
By now the stories of risky mortgages, underregulated banks and ludicrously complex investment instruments are familiar. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Overleveraged and underregulated, the two companies were losing billions. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Workers today labor in underregulated conditions for $9.25 an hour.28 Adjusted for inflation, $9.25 an hour is more than a third lower than what the Monfort family paid workers forty years ago.29 ❋ Dave Zirin (2010)
With the nation still reeling from the harm caused by underregulated markets, conservatives are using city and state budget crises to call for across-the-board privatization, entrusting unaccountable private companies with an ever greater share of the public good. ❋ Unknown (2010)
To scoot energy around the country, companies operate enough pipeline in the U.S. to circle the globe 100 times, and it's these aging, underregulated tubes that cause most problems, according to a new report I coauthored for the National Wildlife Federation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Much of this lending was conducted by underregulated finance companies. ❋ Unknown (2009)
How could such an acclaimed economist have been so naïve as to think that underregulated banks, insurance and brokerage firms would align their own instant-bonus driven culture of greed with the public good? ❋ Unknown (2009)
But this market is so underregulated that you can't be sure what's in any of these pills; few have been thoroughly studied. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They blame the government, minorities, Fannie Mae, the Community Reinvestment Act, and anything else they can think of except good old underregulated Capitalism, American-style, for its horrific failure. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Millions of people who would have been better off renting are in foreclosure because of underregulated subprime lending and the misrepresentations of lenders. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2008)
