March 2012 - Page 7 of 7 - Americans for Financial Reform

Letter: NASAA Criticizes the JOBS Act

Read the letter here.

News Article: Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowd(Funding)

Outpouring of Opposition: In a blog at The Huffington Post (“Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowd(Funding),” March 6, 2012), CFA Director of Investor Protection Barbara Roper documents the broad opposition to the supposedly non-controversial JOBS Act. She points to letters from investor advocates and

News Article: IPO Skids to Get Greased

Raising Risks: A Wall Street Journal article on a recent Senate Banking Committee hearing (“IPO Skids to Get Greased,” March 6, 2012) quotes U.S. securities regulators, legal experts and others who have raised concerns that the JOBS Act “may expose investors to greater risk” without

News Article: Financial Regulations Gutted in New Bill

Regulations Gutted: A column by Kathleen Pender in the San Francisco Chronicle (“Financial Regulations Gutted in New Bill,” March 11, 2012) asks why Democrats, who supported Dodd-Frank and created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, are “solidly backing a bill that would weaken or obliterate many

News Article: Jobs Bill Loosens IPO Regulations

Strong Criticism for IPO On-Ramp: A Wall Street Journal article on House passage of the JOBS Act (“Jobs Bill Loosens IPO Regulations,” March 8, 2012) documents broad opposition to the bill’s so-called IPO On-Ramp. Industry data shows that all but a handful of IPOs would

News Article: Imaginary Problems: Who Really Benefits from Lower Regulatory Burdens?

Imaginary Problems: In a letter to shareholders (“Imaginary Problems: Who Really Benefits from Lower Regulatory Burdens?” February 2, 2012), Motley Fool mutual fund manager Bill Mann thoroughly debunks the premise behind a central plank of the JOBS Act, that American companies are finding it difficult

News Article: JOBS Act Coverage Shows Broad Opposition to Bill’s Anti-Investor Provisions

Short Memories: A New York Times editorial (“They Have Very Short Memories,” March 11, 2012) calls the JOBS Act “a terrible package of bills that would undo essential investor protections, reduce market transparency and distort the efficient allocation of capital.” Citing “reams of Congressional testimony, market analysis and academic research” refuting the claim that regulation has been an impediment to raising capital, the article notes that, on the contrary, “too little regulation has been at the root of all recent bubbles and bursts — the dot-com crash, Enron, the mortgage meltdown. Those free-for-alls created jobs and then imploded, causing mass joblessness.”