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Technology Regulation By Default: Platforms, Privacy, And The Cfpb, Rory Van Loo
Technology Regulation By Default: Platforms, Privacy, And The Cfpb, Rory Van Loo
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In the absence of a technology-focused regulator, diverse administrative agencies have been forced to develop regulatory models for governing their sphere of the data economy. These largely uncoordinated efforts offer a laboratory of regulatory experimentation on governance architecture. This symposium essay explores what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has done in its first several years to regulate financial technology (“fintech”), in the context of broader technology-related concerns identified in the literature. It begins with a survey of what the CFPB has undertaken using more traditional administrative agency tools—enforcement and rulemaking—in areas such as privacy, consumer control over data, and …
The Great Bailout Of 2008-09, Frederick Tung
The Great Bailout Of 2008-09, Frederick Tung
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My task today is to talk about the financial crisis. I only have a short time to talk, so rather than try to give you a comprehensive analysis of events, I'm going to offer some of my own idiosyncratic takes on what has been happening. In addition, I will introduce my own small reform proposal for regulating bank risk taking. So, I'll give you a little bit of news, a little bit of weather, a little bit of everything.
Where are we now? Let us begin with a statement Henry Paulson made six months ago while Bear Steams was getting …