Almost everything you hear at graduations - and read on the internet, and watch on television - focuses on the idea of work, especially entrepreneurship, as a means of self-expression and (to use the term from David Brooks) self-actualization.

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The Eurozone Crisis: A Roadmap for Urgent and Decisive ActionWhile European leaders have been meeting in Brussels to address the crisis in the eurozone,...

The SEC now is seeking public comment on how to improve its process for retrospective reviews of existing rules.

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve the quality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have ―skin in the game.

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) to implement the "Living Will" requirements of Section 165(d).

On January 31, 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued for public comment a proposed approach for recognizing impairment allowances on financial assets.

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve thequality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have -skin in the game.  

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.