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"Rule" is capitalized in press articles. See references in article.
Boyd Reimer ( talk) 00:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
-Add Criticisms? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.99.136.83 ( talk) 17:01, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Here are some possible areas to flesh out this article:
--Adding a section with a more detailed description of the Volcker Rule itself.
--Adding more references to the article
--Adding a History section which gives the context in which the proposals came about - the bailouts, the economic crisis, etc.
--Adding a 'Congressional Action' section to what action has actually been taken to implement the proposed regulations (this could wait until Congress actually takes some actual action).
--Optional: related legislation - could discuss other proposed financial reforms floating through Congress or the relationship of the Volcker Rule to Glass-Steagall.
Thoughts? Nwlaw63 ( talk) 20:35, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
A line mentioning that law firm Davis Polk produced a lot of paperwork around the proposed rules was recently added to the article. This doesn't seem to add anything to the article, and seems vaguely promotional. If no one has any compelling reasons why this should be in here, I'm going to remove it. Nwlaw63 ( talk) 19:22, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
The article really needs something on the background of why Volcker pushed for the rule. I'm changing the section on the board to background, since the economic board doesn't really deserve its own section in this article - it's more background as to what Volcker was doing and why. Nwlaw63 ( talk) 18:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
There has been a disagreement on the page regarding the McMahon quote. I think this quote, which gives the liberal perspective, balances the conservative perspective given in the previous paragraph, about republican concerns regarding the law's impact. If there's a better way to do this, I'm open, though I do think that political views of the legislation and those seeking to support or hinder it are entirely relevant. I reverted the deletion of the quote, because the reason given, that the quote wasn't relevant to the article seems incorrect - one could argue about POV, it seems to me, but not relevance. Nwlaw63 ( talk) 19:13, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
97.87.29.188 ( talk) 22:23, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Financial Reform: Unfinished Business November 24, 2011 by Paul Volcker - October 27, 2011. 97.87.29.188 ( talk) 00:25, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/where-is-the-volcker-rule/ Where Is the Volcker Rule? December 15, 2011, 5:00 AM by Simon Johnson (economist) 99.19.45.160 ( talk) 00:42, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
The 2012 Regulatory and Market Landscape ... 'Volcker Rule' Boon or Bane? It Depends Which Side of Street You're On January 3, 2012 by Scott Patterson Wall Street Journal. 97.87.29.188 ( talk) 00:33, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Americans for Progressive Change requested, per Redlink. 99.181.131.214 ( talk) 03:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
99.181.134.192 ( talk) 07:27, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I notice that Silber's new biography of Volcker, which contains quite a bit of material on the Volcker rule, isn't used as a source here, and Volcker's relevant views from that book aren't mentioned. Has anyone read the biography that would have material to contribute here? I'll do this down the road at some point, but if anyone else wants to, this would be a good place from which to expand the article. Nwlaw63 ( talk) 02:06, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
Tried to find a reliable source that says this: "Volcker Rule fixes what Commodities Futures Modernization Act did when it deregulated derivatives" -- it would be synthesis from the articles I read. What's missing from this article is why the Rule is needed now -- it wasn't necessary before the CFMA. Raquel Baranow ( talk) 04:57, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
I agree, I am going to look for some articles and references on the need for the rule going forward. I agree that it would add to the article. BerkeleyLaw1979 ( talk) 02:11, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
In the 'Proposal' section 'a bank or institution that owns a bank' might be less ambiguous with commas 'a bank, or institution that owns a bank,'. I read it at first as meaning '(a bank or institution)(that owns a bank)' 86.53.56.45 ( talk) 17:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
The effects section is surely incomplete. As the description says, the exodus a big time bankers was an obvious outcome of the Volcker Rule, so much so that their leaving was nearly written in the law.
In this setting the economic effects are much more important. Have banks been receiving consistently safe returns since this law? Have they been turning smaller profits, and therefore paying smaller interest rates? Has the economy changed in any way that can be directly related to this amendment? And the list goes on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgeheiler1997 ( talk • contribs) 21:25, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
The intention of Trump administration to weaken the rule seems worthy of inclusion, particularly as relates to the Randal Quarles Fed nomination. Thoughts here? Nwlaw63 ( talk) 18:40, 10 September 2017 (UTC)