Mike & Co — The week opened with an announcement by Treasury of rules designed to curb corporate inversions. By week’s end, the rules — which take effect on Monday — had their first success, or victim, depending on your perspective, as the proposed $70 billion Pfizer/Allergan merger was called off. Secretary Clinton released a …
Mike & Co. — Good seeing you and others at Julie Chon’s tonight. As you know, Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced the final DOL Fiduciary Rule this morning at the Center for American Progress. The Rule was six years in the making, the product of tense negotiations between some moderate Democrats and the Secretary …
Mike & Co. — Tonight, fingers crossed for the Secretary in the Badger State. Tomorrow, Labor Secretary Perez will release the final version of the long awaited DOL Fiduciary Rule, ending a long slog toward placing fiduciary responsibilities on myriad investment brokers. The winners and losers of the Rule aren’t always clear, but one thing …
Mike & Co. — The House, which is still on recess this week (the Senate is in) continues to march toward Speaker Ryan’s self-imposed April 29 deadline to vote on a legislative solution to deal with the Puerto Rico debt crisis. Two relevant SCOTUS cases to be handed down before June further complicate the picture. If a bill cannot be …
Mike & Co. — Here at the end of a quiet recess, the dust is still settling following the D.C. Federal District Court ruling against the FSOC on Wednesday in the MetLife case, with regulators and businesses speculating about the case’s ultimate disposition, scope, and the implications for TBTF designations going forward. From a systemic risk perspective, …
Mike & Co. — Practically without warning, a U.S. District Court Judge in Washington issued a ruling this morning that would impose the greatest limitation to the scope of Dodd-Frank in the law’s five-year history. MetLife had challenged the authority of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to designate the firm a SIFI (systemically …
Mike & Co. – This week, far from spring recess in Washington, California Gov. Jerry Brown struck a deal with Democratic legislative and union leaders on a new state minimum wage hike plan. The plan, mandating a minimum wage offer $15/hour by 2022, is one of the largest states economic policy experiments in recent years. While …
Mike & Co. – The revolving door between Manhattan and Washington may be a subject of some import for those reasons this. It’s also the subject of legislation supported by HRC that delineates a way to engage the best and brightest in government service without creating a tacit quid pro quo or the appearance (or …
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Mike & Co. – In a stark departure from political history since Reagan and Goldwater, the Republican Party this year has struggled to come up with a unified tax message. Perhaps more odd, still, are the abrupt change in tone surrounding the tax debate, from the traditionally robustly pronounced to a muted, tentative, and confused …
Mike & Co. – Last week, legislators in both the House and the Senate proposed regulation in the political intelligence industry to increase the transparency of the relationship between Wall Street and Washington. In an election where campaign finance and Wall Street issues have been salient themes, the bill and the candidates’ positions on it could turn out to be …
