The U.S. Treasury’s proposal to reorganize the regulation of the country’s investment and banking industry, along with the insurance industry, is a step in the right direction. We clearly need a more centralized and focused management of the regulation of these entities. There currently is too much of a hodge-podge of different agencies with overlapping jurisdictions and chaotic bureaucratic rules. We need more transparency so that investors and borrowers know what is happening to the money they’re investing or the money that they’re borrowing – where it is going and what it is costing them. This will be accomplished through the type of approach outlined by Treasury Secretary Paulson.  I think it’s a positive step toward correcting some of the structural problems we have in the area of oversight.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 1:30 pm and is filed under Politics, Economy/Budget .