Blog Entries tagged 'Federal Regulation'

Murray & Larson move to expand marine conservation here

art@artshotwell.com — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Rick Larsen teamed up to introduce legislation that reauthorizes and expands the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act.
The Northwest Straits Initiative's goal is to restore and protect marine habitat in the Northwest Straits, from the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Northern Puget Sound to the Canadian border, in order to achieve ecosystem health and sustainable resource use. Most importantly, the legislation establishes and fun [...]

Billions off the balance sheet, and it's legal?

bhodgman@comcast.net — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:45:52 +0100

There's an article in the Sunday New York Times about how the current mortgage debt crisis in the U.S. financial system came about (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/business/23how.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all)

There are calls for new regulations and changes to the Federal Reserve/SEC mission, but one passage in particular struck me:

"Among the topics they discussedwere investment vehicles that allowed Citigroup and other banks to keep billions of dollars in poten [...]