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NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EXPECTED TO UNDO BIDEN’S FINANCIAL REGULATION
CHAOS LIKELY TO ENSUE. CATASTROPHE CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
CHAOS LIKELY TO ENSUE. CATASTROPHE CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
By Guest Writer • Nov 24, 2024
• Topics: Bellingham, USA / Global, Government, Law & Justice, Business,
[Guest Writer, Marco Rosaire Rossi, is the executive director of Washingtonians
for Public Banking and an adjunct professor in political science in Washington
state.]
The Biden administration was far from perfect when it came to banking
regulations, but it did turn a substantial corner in breaking with the
neoliberal orthodoxy of previous administrations—including Obama’s. Now, with
president elect Donald Trump returning to the White House in January, there will
likely be a rapid and dramatic undoing of the Biden administration’s victories.
As expected, the consequences of Trump’s hacksaw approach to banking regulations
will undoubtedly harm average Americans, and lead to the type of wild west
environment that was indicative of the Great Recession.
First, there is antitrust. Under the Biden administration antitrust regulators
experienced an administrative renaissance. Anchored in Executive Order 14036,
the Biden administration declared a “whole-of-government” approach to market
competition, meaning that ensuring fair and competitive markets was now the
responsibility of numerous federal agencies who were expected to work in concert
toward the goal.
After releasing his executive order, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust
Division replaced its 1995 Bank Merger Guidelines with the more modern and
aggressive 2023 guidelines. The new guidelines deviated from the “consumer
welfare standard”—which placed the burden on regulators to prove that consumers
would be harmed by a merger—and instead adopted a “structural presumption”
standard, which focused on the dominance that a firm would likely have in the
market. To outsiders the linguistical maneuver might appear trivial, but in
practice it meant the federal government now considered monopolization
in-and-of-itself a problem for the market regardless of if it could prove a
specific harm to consumers.
Undoubtedly, Trump will rescind Executive Order 14036. Antitrust enforcement
will be returned to the narrow work of a few or one agency and the government
will be moved back to a “consumer welfare standard,” especially as it relates to
the banking sector. Already, investors are preparing for his administration to
approve Capital One Financial Group’s $35.3 billion purchase of Discover
Financial, a deal that Biden’s regulators were opposing.
Next, is capital requirements. In accordance with Basel III Endgame’s
international standards, the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) have
been working on new regulations that would require America’s largest banks to
raise their capital reserves to remain operational. Regulators have proposed
that banks with more than $250 billion in assets but are not considered
systemically important to the overall economy would see a 10% increase in their
capital requirements, while banks with assets between $100 billion and $250
billion would see a 5% increase. This would average to an additional $2 of
capital for every $100 of risk-weighted assets. Additionally, the increase would
be eased overtime, with full implementation of the regulations scheduled to be
completed in 2028. Despite the intense opposition from America’s largest banks,
with their lobbyists claiming that any increase in capital requirements would
stifle lending, experts believe that the impact on lending would be minimal, and
be offset by the long-term benefits of a more stable banking sector. In
2020, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a paper that
concluded that increased capital reserves among banks correlated with a
reduction in the likelihood of an economic slowdown.
The agreement on capital requirements has not been finalized, and regulators
have unfortunately continued to water down their position to appease the banking
sector. Still, it was expected that an agreement would be reached soon. However,
with a new Trump administration taking the reins of power, an agreement could be
postponed indefinitely, or—even if a deal is finally worked out—enforced so
casually as to not be effective.
Finally, there is price gouging. Early on, the Biden administration committed
itself to ending price gouging in the financial sector by empowering the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to go after junk fees, especially in
the credit card industry. For decades, credit card companies had been exploiting
loopholes in the regulatory framework, charging people an average of $32 each
time they made a late payment. These late payment fees had become a cash cow for
the industry, totaling $14 billion a year, and equaling 10% of the total amount
that consumers paid in all interest and late fees to financial companies.
Biden’s appointed head to the CFPB—Rohit Chopra—put an end to this excessive
price gouging by reducing late fees to $8 and requiring credit card companies to
be transparent with their math when issuing bills to consumers.
During his previous administration, Trump significantly hindered the CFPB. With
the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Seila Law LLC v. CFPB (2020), the
CFPB was determined not to be an independent executive agency, meaning that the
president is empowered to fire the heads of the CFPB without cause. There is
little doubt that once in office Trump will remove Rohit Chopra from the
agency’s leadership, appoint his own people, and rapidly undo the progress the
agency has made on fighting price gouging.
What? Me Worry?
Undeniably, many people voted for Trump because they believed that he would curb
inflation. The high cost of housing, energy, and food in the post-pandemic
economy is surely a burden for working people, and they are right to be angry at
the Biden administration for not doing more to tackle the issue. However,
Trump’s lackadaisical approach to monopolization, regulation, and price gouging
in the financial sector will only make matters worse.
Trump and the Make America Great Again movement might be an outgrowth of the
pain and frustration felt by Americans in the aftermath of the Great Recession,
but his governing ideology—especially when it comes to the nation’s largest
financial institutions—won’t help hard working Americans. If anything, these
reckless policies will likely drive the country into another economic collapse.
COMMENTS BY READERS
RICHARD VERBREE
Nov 25, 2024
your headline is a bit contradictory, Biden bailed out silicon valley bank and
one other in an unprecedented level far above the fdic $250,000 per account.
Those banks failed because of poor-not enough regulation
Trump never tanked the economy like the “great recession” in his first term
either
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NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EXPECTED TO UNDO BIDEN’S FINANCIAL REGULATION
By Guest Writer • On Nov 24, 2024
Chaos likely to ensue. Catastrophe cannot be ruled out.
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Phasing in of Veterans Administration (VA) health care under the Pact Act has
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By Dick Conoboy • On Oct 27, 2024
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means low-cost loans and no additions to the deficit.
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Medicare Advantage is NOT Medicare. Medicare is there to provide health care.
Medicare Advantage is a business, there to make money.
1 comment, most recent 1 month ago
AN OVERLOOKED BENEFIT OF IMPROVED INTERNET ACCESS IN WHATCOM COUNTY: THE U.S.
CENSUS
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David Swanson verifies what Jon Humphrey has said for years: good internet
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MINIMUM WAGE - FARCE OR TRAGEDY?
By Dick Conoboy • On Oct 19, 2024
Or perhaps tragic farce or farcical tragedy might be more apt descriptors. Pick
one, or both.
13 comments, most recent 1 month ago
THE BIG ASK
By NWCitizen Management • On Oct 16, 2024
After nearly 30 years online, and literally being one of the oldest blogs on the
internet, Northwest Citizen needs a major programming overhaul. To do so, we
need your help.
1 comment, most recent 1 month ago
THE DISTURBING DISAPPEARANCE OF LOCAL BANKS
By Guest Writer • On Sep 19, 2024
The top 20% of commercial banks in the United States control 95% of our total
banking assets. Remember “Too-Big-to-Fail”?
3 comments, most recent 2 months ago
HOW TO GET NOTHING DONE
By Jon Humphrey • On Aug 24, 2024
The City has created another useless document ensuring nothing changes and
mediocre communication services are protected.
13 comments, most recent 1 month ago
YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YET? CHECK OUT THIS IDEA FOR ONE OF YOUR VOTES.
By John Servais • On Aug 05, 2024
Why a vote for Jason Call for Congress is a good vote for conservatives,
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FIRST MURRAY. NOW LARSEN. HALF TRILLION DOLLAR THEFT FROM MEDICARE: NOT AN
ISSUE.
By Dick Conoboy • On Jul 27, 2024
Heaven forbid our reps should attack the main problem, Medicare Advantage, head
on. But no. They must nibble around the edges to give the appearance of doing
something.
1 comment, most recent 3 months ago
MORAL INJURY LINKS MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PHYSICIANS TO COMBAT VETERANS
By Dick Conoboy • On Jun 16, 2024
Morally significant double binds force doctors and combat soldiers into
identical life and death quandaries, damaging their moral centers. To these two
groups we can also add law enforcement officers.
4 comments, most recent 5 months ago
OVER A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS STOLEN FROM MEDICARE - SEN. PATTY MURRAY IS OK WITH
THAT
By Dick Conoboy • On Jun 14, 2024
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3 comments, most recent 5 months ago
NOOKSACK ADJUDICATION VS. STATE WATER LAW?
By Eric Hirst • On Jun 14, 2024
Eric Hirst gives us a brief and clear explanation of the water adjudication
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3 comments, most recent 4 months ago
THE SCRAP HEAP - THE REAL MESSAGE
By David Netboy • On Jun 12, 2024
Aggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
5 comments, most recent 5 months ago
THE WEALTH OF REAL ESTATE CORPORATIONS IS NOT OUR PURPOSE FOR BEING
By Guest Writer • On Jun 11, 2024
Build-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
11 comments, most recent 2 months ago
ALL REMAINING ABC SCRAP METAL IS ON SHIP
By John Servais • On Jun 10, 2024
The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our
town.
1 comment, most recent 5 months ago
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NEW TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EXPECTED TO UNDO BIDEN’S FINANCIAL REGULATION
By Guest Writer • On Nov 24, 2024
Chaos likely to ensue. Catastrophe cannot be ruled out.
1 comment, most recent 7 hours ago
THE TYRANNY OF LEAF BLOWERS
By Guest Writer • On Nov 14, 2024
There is no escape from the deep-throated roar and the clouds of filth produced
by these machines.
3 comments, most recent 1 week ago
THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP
By John Servais • On Nov 07, 2024
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
19 comments, most recent 1 day ago
VETERANS DAY, 2024. WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
By Dick Conoboy • On Nov 04, 2024
Deeds, not talk, count on Veterans Day
2 comments, most recent 2 weeks ago
VA HEALTH CARE FOR LIFE? YOU NOW MAY BE ELIGIBLE.
By Dick Conoboy • On Nov 01, 2024
Phasing in of Veterans Administration (VA) health care under the Pact Act has
been eliminated. All eligible veterans can enroll in VA health care…NOW!
HOW DO YOU SPELL BUDGET AND DISASTER RELIEF? N…I…B
By Dick Conoboy • On Oct 27, 2024
An off-budget $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank (NIB), along the lines of
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) that operated between 1932-1957,
means low-cost loans and no additions to the deficit.
MEDICARE ADVANTAGE OPEN SEASON AND YOU ARE THE $$$ TARGET
By Dick Conoboy • On Oct 23, 2024
Medicare Advantage is NOT Medicare. Medicare is there to provide health care.
Medicare Advantage is a business, there to make money.
1 comment, most recent 1 month ago
AN OVERLOOKED BENEFIT OF IMPROVED INTERNET ACCESS IN WHATCOM COUNTY: THE U.S.
CENSUS
By David A. Swanson • On Oct 21, 2024
David Swanson verifies what Jon Humphrey has said for years: good internet
access benefits people, cities, counties, and states.
10 comments, most recent 1 month ago
MINIMUM WAGE - FARCE OR TRAGEDY?
By Dick Conoboy • On Oct 19, 2024
Or perhaps tragic farce or farcical tragedy might be more apt descriptors. Pick
one, or both.
13 comments, most recent 1 month ago
THE BIG ASK
By NWCitizen Management • On Oct 16, 2024
After nearly 30 years online, and literally being one of the oldest blogs on the
internet, Northwest Citizen needs a major programming overhaul. To do so, we
need your help.
1 comment, most recent 1 month ago
THE DISTURBING DISAPPEARANCE OF LOCAL BANKS
By Guest Writer • On Sep 19, 2024
The top 20% of commercial banks in the United States control 95% of our total
banking assets. Remember “Too-Big-to-Fail”?
3 comments, most recent 2 months ago
HOW TO GET NOTHING DONE
By Jon Humphrey • On Aug 24, 2024
The City has created another useless document ensuring nothing changes and
mediocre communication services are protected.
13 comments, most recent 1 month ago
YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YET? CHECK OUT THIS IDEA FOR ONE OF YOUR VOTES.
By John Servais • On Aug 05, 2024
Why a vote for Jason Call for Congress is a good vote for conservatives,
liberals, Democrats and Republicans. Yes, an unusual idea.
FIRST MURRAY. NOW LARSEN. HALF TRILLION DOLLAR THEFT FROM MEDICARE: NOT AN
ISSUE.
By Dick Conoboy • On Jul 27, 2024
Heaven forbid our reps should attack the main problem, Medicare Advantage, head
on. But no. They must nibble around the edges to give the appearance of doing
something.
1 comment, most recent 3 months ago
MORAL INJURY LINKS MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PHYSICIANS TO COMBAT VETERANS
By Dick Conoboy • On Jun 16, 2024
Morally significant double binds force doctors and combat soldiers into
identical life and death quandaries, damaging their moral centers. To these two
groups we can also add law enforcement officers.
4 comments, most recent 5 months ago
OVER A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS STOLEN FROM MEDICARE - SEN. PATTY MURRAY IS OK WITH
THAT
By Dick Conoboy • On Jun 14, 2024
It is time to stop the “Real Steal” from Medicare.
3 comments, most recent 5 months ago
NOOKSACK ADJUDICATION VS. STATE WATER LAW?
By Eric Hirst • On Jun 14, 2024
Eric Hirst gives us a brief and clear explanation of the water adjudication
process that is beginning now in Whatcom County
3 comments, most recent 4 months ago
THE SCRAP HEAP - THE REAL MESSAGE
By David Netboy • On Jun 12, 2024
Aggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
5 comments, most recent 5 months ago
THE WEALTH OF REAL ESTATE CORPORATIONS IS NOT OUR PURPOSE FOR BEING
By Guest Writer • On Jun 11, 2024
Build-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
11 comments, most recent 2 months ago
ALL REMAINING ABC SCRAP METAL IS ON SHIP
By John Servais • On Jun 10, 2024
1:02pm — The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone
from our town.
1 comment, most recent 5 months ago
A WALKING TOUR AT THE CORE OF THE EXPLOSION
By John Servais • On Jun 10, 2024
A 54-photo tour of the ruptured pipe area of the Whatcom Creek explosion taken
in July 1999.
1 comment, most recent 5 months ago
THE AUDIO OF THE PIPELINE EXPLOSION
By John Servais • On Jun 08, 2024
7:09pm — Below is an audio tape of 911 calls, emergency responders’ radio
communications, and local radio coverage from June 10, 1999 when Whatcom Creek
exploded in Bellingham
2 comments, most recent 5 months ago
COURT PROCESS FOR DEFINING WHATCOM WATER RIGHTS BEGINS
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Whatcom County’s confusing water rights will be defined by court proceedings
beginning now
1 comment, most recent 5 months ago
MEMORIAL DAY 2024 - REMEMBERING MY FRIENDS
By Dick Conoboy • On May 25, 2024
If not killed-in-action, they are still dying from the effects of their service
in Vietnam.
7 comments, most recent 5 months ago
MORE BROADBANDWASHING AND ANTI-VOTER SECRECY
By Jon Humphrey • On May 25, 2024
The foam of secrecy hides all.
WATER RIGHTS
By Tip Johnson • On May 02, 2024
Local presentations scheduled on a reasonable use framework for water resource
management
A RESOLUTION TO MAKE SURE NOTHING GETS DONE
By Jon Humphrey • On Apr 09, 2024
Broadband-Washing: Greenwashing the Internet
6 comments, most recent 7 months ago
MOVING BACK FROM THE BRINK
By Gene Marx • On Apr 05, 2024
Pacific Northwest organizers join a global campaign to abolish all nukes and
push for a city council resolution to start
4 comments, most recent 7 months ago
MEDICARE (DIS)ADVANTAGE - EVEN HOSPITALS DON’T LIKE IT.
By Dick Conoboy • On Mar 31, 2024
If the hospitals are smelling a rat, so should Medicare (Dis)Advantage victims
(AKA enrollees).
2 comments, most recent 5 months ago
THE $5 TRILLION NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE BANK IS LOOKING BETTER EVERY DAY
By Dick Conoboy • On Mar 27, 2024
With such a bank in place, we would likely not be scrambling around and asking
Congress for rebuild monies, as we are now with the catastrophic event involving
the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024.
SCRAP METAL SHIPPING FROM PORT DOCK ENDS THIS SUMMER
By John Servais • On Mar 25, 2024
Port of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease
5 comments, most recent 7 months ago
COB - YOUR INTERESTS VS. CORPORATE INTERESTS
By Jon Humphrey • On Mar 18, 2024
No public fiber means we can’t compete with big telecom. EVER.
4 comments, most recent 7 months ago
THE INSIDIOUS CREEP OF MEDICARE (DIS)ADVANTAGE
By Guest Writer • On Feb 25, 2024
Crappier coverage for us, even more money for insurance companies.
3 comments, most recent 8 months ago
FIRING UP THE WAR MACHINE
By Dianne Foster • On Feb 09, 2024
Who benefits? Palestinians are being slaughtered. Genocide. Gaza is being
leveled.
6 comments, most recent 8 months ago
THREE WISE MEN?
By Tip Johnson • On Jan 09, 2024
The Port Commission has decreed that Bellingham’s waterfront will remain a
toxic, festering sore
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THE ABC RECYCLING HOOK
By David Netboy • On Dec 26, 2023
We needed a hook, and we think we found it.
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DEMENTORS ATTACK THE SEHOME NEIGHBORHOOD
By David A. Swanson • On Dec 08, 2023
"Sweet Jesus,” shrieked the thralls of the Sehomus Republic,as ABC the
Yochlowitz,successor to GorgoPacificus the Destroyer,...
3 comments, most recent 11 months ago
JUST WHAT WE NEED - A BANK IN FAIRHAVEN
By Dick Conoboy • On Dec 05, 2023
Peoples Bank proposes to tear down the once popular Zane Burger restaurant to
build a branch office.
3 comments, most recent 11 months ago
CHUTZPAH REDEFINED - CALL FOR CITIZEN POLICING OF MEDICARE ADVANTAGE
By Dick Conoboy • On Dec 02, 2023
Biden administration is asking the public to report on bogus advertising claims
of Medicare Advantage providers.
7 comments, most recent 11 months ago
ALERT ON DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL: 2706 MILL AVENUE
By Guest Writer • On Nov 30, 2023
15 new townhouses, out-of-town developer, build-and-run, in south side Happy
Valley neighborhood of Bellingham.
2 comments, most recent 11 months ago
ABC RECYCLING MEETS THE PUBLIC
By Guest Writer • On Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday, Dec, 5, will be the first time ABC Recycling has agreed to answer the
public. Don’t miss this meeting. Here are the issues.
6 comments, most recent 11 months ago
DON’T BE MANIPULATED BY MISLEADING DATA
By David A. Swanson • On Nov 19, 2023
The effect of WWU students on Whatcom County’s rental housing market
5 comments, most recent 11 months ago
SCAMMING OUR VETERANS
By Dick Conoboy • On Nov 17, 2023
There seems to be no barrier to the depths to which scammers will go to steal
money from the most vulnerable or deserving.
SOME THOUGHTS ON VETERANS DAY 2023
By Dick Conoboy • On Nov 10, 2023
Merely musing about soldiers.
4 comments, most recent 1 year ago
THANKS TO THE CITY OF BELLINGHAM
By Jon Humphrey • On Nov 09, 2023
The city comes through on public wi-fi hotspots
1 comment, most recent 1 year ago
THOUGHTS OF A BELLINGHAM RENTER
By Guest Writer • On Nov 08, 2023
An insider’s view of rental inspections in Bellingham as experienced by a
long-time renter.
5 comments, most recent 1 year ago
VOTE YES ON JAIL TAX - A PERSONAL VIEW
By Guest Writer • On Nov 04, 2023
It is time to stop the injustices that have been propagated over the years.
6 comments, most recent 1 year ago
RETIREES WITH FEDERAL EMPLOYEE HEALTH CARE - BEWARE OF OFFERS TO SWITCH DRUG
COVERAGE
By Dick Conoboy • On Nov 04, 2023
Getting a letter that declares, “An exciting new prescription drug benefit for
you!” should activate your BS detector.
7 comments, most recent 11 months ago
NO THIRD JAIL TAX
By Tip Johnson • On Oct 31, 2023
Who benefits?
3 comments, most recent 1 year ago
CANDIDATE STATEMENT: JACE COTTON FOR BELLINGHAM COUNCIL
By Candidate • On Oct 31, 2023
At Large position on the Bellngham City Council
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