NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is revisiting the rule that bears his name, hoping to restore its potency after a lawmakers’ tinkering. Volcker is pushing ...

The working paper’s authors found that the Volcker Rule might be increasing banks costs of trading. When this paper is peer reviewed, perhaps we will find that the costs have indeed gone up.

The Volcker rule is named after Paul Volcker, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1979 to1987 and served as the head of the Economic Advisory Board under Obama from 2009 to 2011.. In his ...

In 2008, in the wake of the financial crisis, the now 86-year-old Paul Volcker, who served as Fed chairman in the 1970s and 1980s, proposed a ban on big banks making risky bets for their own ...

The draft proposal of the Volcker Rule asks many questions that both banks and their critics hope to answer. Subscribe To Newsletters. Volcker Rule Is Out, How Much Will It ...

What the Volcker Rule really means for Wall Street banking. Dec. 10, 2013, 5:15 PM EST. By John Carney.

The Volcker rule is a nod toward Glass-Steagall, a Depression-era law that Congress repealed in 1999. Glass-Steagall had prevented commercial banks from dabbling in investment banking.

The Volcker Rule Must Be Strengthened JPMorgan’s Misplaced $2 Billion Bet Reveals Dangers to Taxpayers. Travis Waldron parses the evidence of why risky proprietary trading is the root of the ...

Federal regulators are expected to give final approval this week to the so-called Volcker Rule, which bars banks from making risky investments with the insured deposits they’re holding for ...