SEC Budget

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/02/sec-budget

The New York Times takes a somewhat skeptical look at the Securities and Exchange Commission:

by several measures, the S.E.C. is far from starved for money. Its $1.1 billion budget in 2010 was 15 percent higher than the $960 million it received the year before — and nearly triple its $377 million budget in 2000.

Representative Spencer T. Bachus, the Alabama Republican who is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said last week that the tripling of the S.E.C.'s budget occurred in a period that included some of the agency's biggest failures — the Ponzi schemes of Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford and the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.

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Last September, H. David Kotz, the inspector general, reported that a lack of adequate policies led the agency to make lease payments that could have been avoided, including more than $15 million for space in Manhattan that no S.E.C. employees have occupied in the last five years.

by Ira Stoll  |  Feb 3, 2011 at 9:36 am Related Topics:  Capital Markets Regulation, SEC receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list