• “The Dodd-Frank Say-on-Pay Cases Are on the Brink of Death” [Kevin LaCroix]
• Kevin Funnell of Bank Lawyers Blog interviewed [Crystal Gimesh via BLB]
• How taxpayer lending props up business model of banks, fast-food franchisors [Dayton Daily News on SBA via Tad DeHaven]
• Independent currency = money laundering? “How Bitcoin Dies” [Econ Policy Journal] Or death by trial lawyer? [Coyote, Andrew Sullivan]
• Nose of the camel: Obama budget plans to limit IRAs to $3 million [Politico]
• How Swiss bank secrecy protected freedom [Daniel Fisher]
• Sure, what could go wrong? Obama push for more mortgage lending to borrowers with weaker credit [Gideon Kanner, Coyote] More: Arnold Kling testifies before Congress on housing finance, and feels a resulting “need to scream” [ASKBlog, more]
• More: Per NYT’s expert, “Shareholders have been demanding” disclosure on corporate political spending. Well, 18% of shareholders anyway [Jim Copland]

Filed under: banks, Dodd-Frank, mortgages, Securities and Exchange Commission, Switzerland