Zach Carter reports on a blow to efforts to regulate the runaway derivatives market. Just as most derivatives are set to be put onto clearinghouses, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner exempted a large group of derivatives, foreign currency swaps, from the regulations. The Treasury Department plans to exempt foreign exchange derivatives from new Wall Street reform [...]

I’ve said for many months now that Dodd-Frank was not a bill, but a promise to write a bill later. The implementation process lay ahead, and that meant that regulators would have the ability to interpret the will of the Congress. Congress gave them this power very willingly – there are dozens of studies and [...]