During two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members discussed the latest in financial regulation issues. At a luncheon briefing following these sessions, SFRC members gave several statements and answered questions.

Florida governor Charlie Crist has shifted many of his political stances in an attempt garner support for his Senate bid from Democrats and independents, but this strategy may backfire as voters turn against self-serving politicians.

Republican governor Charlie Crist will be left with a disappointingly small share of the vote in the race for Florida's Senate seat.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy.

During the past three decades, bank supervision and regulation have failed. The banking industry—in the United States and worldwide—has been beset by an array of unprecedented and severe crises. At this AEI event, professor Charles Calomiris will lay out a 10-point "incentive-robust" framework for financial reform and a panel of experts will discuss his work.

In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry--including banking, insurance, and securities--who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy.