Gabriel Urwitz, chairman of the private equity firm Segulah and a former professor of financial economics, said the Swedish financial supervisory authority, Finansinspektionen, did not have enough regulators and the necessary regulation to monitor traders properly.
Greg Ghodsi: In my opinion, we have enough regulators for all the current regulations.
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have argued that big investors like hedge funds, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds are itching to put billions of dollars into digital assets but can't because there isn't enough regulator-approved infrastructure.
If they do not move fast enough, regulators may yet have to intervene more forcefully.
Now, if the two companies can persuade enough regulators to approve foam for the daily cover on landfills, both have a shot at what some experts peg as an $800 million market.
There will never be enough regulators to police all the trucks and tanks and rigs that will cover the Marcellus from New York State to the Kentucky state line in the next few decades.
If a company's behavior is egregious enough, regulators and state attorneys general can and do deliver the deterrence.
Greg Ghodsi, the head of the 360 Wealth Management Group at Raymond James, says the U.S. already has enough regulators, that's not the problem.
Classic financial education -- say, teaching the difference between a stock and a bond -- may not be enough, regulators said.
And if all this weren't enough, regulators also permitted the banks to hide the true value of their bad loans and they let it be known that the largest ones were Too Big To Fail, which allows them to borrow funds more cheaply than smaller banks.
