Comments on: The Financial Markets As A Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-financial-markets-as-a-commons/2008/11/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-financial-markets-as-a-commons/2008/11/02/comment-page-1#comment-330156 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:22:05 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2051#comment-330156 I must say that sounds as a very naive statement to me. The huge shadow banking system, responsible for most of the assets, was not regulated, and still isn’t, though it is now imploding; and the existing regulations had been loosened more and more to make this system possible.

As far as I understand it, there seem to be very little conditions attached to the bail out, and divident payments and exorbitant executive seem not to be stopped.

Nocera in the IHT noted recently that far from using the new capital to start lending again, the major banks are using it to swallow competitors …

Michel

]]> By: Jerry https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-financial-markets-as-a-commons/2008/11/02/comment-page-1#comment-330155 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:18:02 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2051#comment-330155 The financial markets are highly regulated with the SEC, FINRA, Insurance regulators and trading markets providing oversight. The bailout seems to be a good calculation with the potential for profits down the road. Some good information about this is at:
http://www.thebailoutblog.com

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