URGENT: Obama proposes “Volcker” plan to reign in banking industry

Breaking Now:

+ Includes size and complexity limits on proprietary trading by commercial banks
+ New rules, regulation, and oversight to decrease pass-through risk to customers and shareholders
+ Return to Glass-Steagall style separation of commercial and investment banks
+ “Banks no longer allowed to own and run hedge funds for their own profit”

What’s Missing?

Yes, Wall Street is corrupt and greedy. Yes, some mortgage brokers were and are corrupt and greedy. Should those two industrys be reformed? Almost certainly.

But what’s missing from this equation? How about the third leg of the stool that collapsed out from under us: Government. A major part of the housing crisis was played through grossly negligent and sometimes almost criminal lending done on the part of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – at the behest of the United States executive and legislative branches during their push to ensure 100% home ownership across the nation. [Source: http://bit.ly/5tCdQC]

OF NOTE: It should be noted that, as yet, 100% of the above exists only in the form of proposed legislation not yet passed completely by either the House or the Senate.

This post is currently being edited. Updates throughout the day as information comes through.

This just in!  This article explains a new proposal on capital hill that might just save all of those small banks that predominantly finance small business startups!

From what I’ve read, any bank with a cap under $75 million will not fall under the proposed new regulations (which are vastly more harsh than current regulations).

What you should take away from this: Whether you feel that more regulation (in the grand scheme of things) is a good thing or a bad thing, this proposed ammendment to the regulation bill should keep small business lending at least as open as it is right now, and probably as open as it was pre-debt bubble.

Please feel free to chime in and let us know your thoughts on this issue! And, as usual…

… Go out there and make it happen!