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State of the Financial Services Industry – July 17, 2012. Focus on fortress balance sheets; too big to fail; the cumulative weight of new rules; and economic benefits of big banks “The two-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act is marked by a safer and stronger financial services industry. Capital is at a record high, lending …
Via American Banker Association – Davis Polk: Two Years of Dodd-Frank
News release: “The Financial Stability Oversight Council (the Council) today voted unanimously to designate eight financial market utilities (FMUs) as systemically important under Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). This action, the first designations made by the Council, represents another key step towards creating a safer, …
Via LLRX.com – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – July 2012 Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical, predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor, analyze and …
Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story by Michael A. Carrier via SSRN “Copyright has an innovation problem. Judicial decisions, private enforcement, and public dialogue ignore innovation and overemphasize the harms of copyright infringement. Just to pick one example, piracy, theft, and rogue websites were the focus of debate in connection with the PROTECT IP Act …
Health Care: Constitutional Rights and Legislative Powers. Kathleen S. Swendiman, Legislative Attorney, July 9, 2012 “The health care reform debate raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability, and quality of health care. Underlying these policy considerations are issues regarding the status of health care as a constitutional or legal right. This …
Center for Economic and Policy Research: “The U.S. health care system is possibly the most inefficient in the world: We spend twice as much per person on health care as other advanced countries, but we have worse health outcomes, including a lower life expectancy. The government, through programs like Medicare and Medicaid, pays for approximately …
CRS – ACA: A Brief Overview of the Law, Implementation, and Legal Challenges, July 3, 2012 “On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court issued its decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, finding that the individual mandate is a constitutional exercise of Congresss authority to levy taxes. However, the Court held that it …
Federal Laws Relating to Cybersecurity: Discussion of Proposed Revisions. Eric A. Fischer, Senior Specialist in Science and Technology, June 29, 2012 “For more than a decade, various experts have expressed increasing concerns about cybersecurity, in light of the growing frequency, impact, and sophistication of attacks on information systems in the United States and abroad. Consensus …
“[June 27, 2012] the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released information revealing the existence of hundreds of previously unknown coal ash dumps nationwide. The information comes pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) by Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice. The data released…by the EPA reveal that there are at least 451 more coal ash …
“The Affordable Care Act puts in place strong consumer protections, provides new coverage options and gives you the tools you need to make informed choices about your health. In this section, learn about how the law affects you. Read the Full Law: Read the full text of the Affordable Care Act or browse and download …
What a Supreme Court Decision to Eliminate the Individual Mandate Could Mean for Coverage and Costs, The Urban Institute Health Policy Center, June 22, 2012 The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Acts individual mandate. Without the mandate, the ACA would be less effective in reducing …
