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jandrese a day ago

The libertarian community really thought they had their fox in the hen house when he was put in charge of regulation, and he did a fair bit of deregulation, but not nearly to the extent that they wanted. In the end it was enough to trigger a major financial crisis, but not enough to completely collapse the world economy and return to the feudalism they wanted.

flumes_whims_ a day ago | parent | next [-]

What regulations did he as federal reserve chair rollback and which of them caused the 2008 crash?

anothermathbozo a day ago | parent [-]

He killed Brooksley Born’s proposed derivatives regulations in the late 90’s.

tennfown a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> but not enough to completely collapse the world economy and return to the feudalism they wanted.

Don’t worry, wealthy drug addict pedophiles in Silicon Valley are carrying that torch now.