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Asset-Backed Securities: Disclosure Regulation or Substantive Legislation?

In addition to improving asset-backed securities disclosure (using XBRL perhaps?), SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro called for substantive ABS regulation in a speech Tuesday to SIFMA, the parent organization of the American Securitization Forum (link to colorful Michael Lewis description):

ABS Regulation
In one final example, I believe there may be gaps that should be filled in the [...]

Esther Dyson: Can Transparency Be a Business Model? Yes.

In the March 30 edition of Advertising Age, Esther Dyson asks if transparency can be a business model. She makes “a proposal for a place to talk to your critics and tell the world how your products are made.” It is, like every word I’ve heard her utter, simply brilliant.
I submitted a 500-word comment on the [...]