Executive Council Statement
Financial Regulation
… of reregulating our financial markets, like the challenge of restoring workers’ rights in the workplace, is central to securing the economic future of our country and the world. In 2006, while the Bush administration was in the midst of … momentum in 2007 and 2008, and now a different day is upon us. The costs of the deregulation illusion have become clear to all but a handful of unrepentant ideologues, and the public cast its votes in November for candidates who promised to end the era of rampant financial speculation and deregulation. In October, when Congress authorized the $700 billion …