Sheila Bair: Why We Need A New Volcker Rule

Sheila Bair: Why We Need A New Volcker Rule

FORTUNE -- Financial reformers are pointing to the collapse of the $41 billion MF Global brokerage house as evidence of why we need Dodd-Frank's "Volcker Rule" to prohibit FDIC-insured banks and their affiliates from making proprietary bets on the markets. Fortunately, MF Global was not a bank or bank affiliate, and its failure has not cost taxpayers a dime. And I, for one, am very happy to see a major, well-connected market player eat its losses (while being equally dismayed by the apparent regulatory lapses that have let hundreds of millions in customer money go missing).

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