Question

Scenario

Though the United States has certainly learned its share of lessons from the economic meltdown of 2008, the financial institutions that helped cause it remain largely intact and unrestrained. For legislators in Washington, writing regulations to prevent another widespread collapse is a slippery slope. For instance, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate called for a consumer protection agency to serve as a watchdog over Wall Street’s biggest banks. As with every political issue, the idea is not universally supported. Opposition from Republicans and disagreement over the autonomy of the agency has delayed its implementation for the time being.

Ideally, the consumer protection agency would act like the FDIC: If a bank goes belly up, it won’t take its customer base or the whole financial system down with it. Regulators are searching for an elusive middle ground that would allow an ailing bank to fail smoothly without causing a Lehman Brothers–level panic or another controversial bailout. The Senate’s version of the financial regulation bill includes provisions that would make banks easier to break apart should they fail. But the crux of the bill lies in the consumer protection agency, which would help prevent banks from failing in the first place by keeping a close eye on them.

Nevertheless, the United States is a free market that needs healthy financial institutions to support a stable economy. Too much oversight on banks’ lending practices could hamper their day-to-day operations. Still, it’s hard to forget that the reason why the Great Recession has been so severe is because of the toxic assets banks bundled together and pushed around to each other. It’s true that banks aren’t solely responsible for the economic collapse: foreclosures by debt-ridden consumers triggered the initial panic. But perhaps the whole ordeal could have been avoided if something had prevented banks from offering such bad loans in the first place. In the end, the leverage of banks to deal in debt so freely played a major role in the financial meltdown. Simple solutions like raising reserve requirements wouldn’t work due to the adverse effect they’d have on recovering businesses. A more sweeping change is needed, and hopefully it will come in the form of sound and fair reform.

Questions

1 Would banking reform threaten the U.S. free-market economy? Why or why not? Provide examples to support your answer.

2 Do we really need reform in the banking industry? Why or why not? Provide examples to support your answer.

Answer 1

Solution 1. a). In my opinion reforms in baking sysytem threatens the U.S. free market system beacuse its main lending practices depend upon the baking system. The governemnt need the banks for their day to day transacions and funds in all over the country and world. The extent of governemnt inervention in the finacial system would make the system stuck and worse , this would also leadto economic crisis. If the bankig system would be down the whole economy of the nation would collapase and turn to economic crisis in the country.

b). In 2007-2008 US faced the huge economic crisis because of that the politicians also played the major role in taking adavantage in this great recession period.The legislation and the hired consumer protection agency came together to oversight the U.S. free market baking system.

c). Due to some diagreement of opposition Repulicancans, agency delayed in impliment their functions to bailing out the Lehman Brothers investment bank and other's banks too.

d). The free market economy exploited by other's peopls's money ,for example: many of the persons get fired and went to jail for such paculation and malpractices except any politician or policy maker.

2. a). Time to time Reforming or regulationg the baking system is necessary so that system run smoothly and having less change of facing economic crisis. The change in the technology and development the prevailing rule and regulation would not apply in the change scenerio.

b). New change in baking system leads to more and more recovery of Bad debt and the system would ready to adopt new strategies to compete in the market on global

For example: the U.S financial CHOICE Act, which passesd in the house on june 8, 2017, represent a new and sifferent approach which replace the old regulatory system. This aim of this act is providing regulatory relief to subset of banks (smaller and insignificant banks).