Thursday, June 11, 2009

Sobering questions

Susie Madrak over at C&L has some details from Elizabeth Warren on the pitfalls that remain.

Warren:
Letting the lenders out now — earlier than many had envisioned, and without the industry reforms some consider necessary to prevent future crises — raises many sobering questions for policy makers, bankers and taxpayers.

Trying to set compensation limits bank by bank and job title by job title just doesn't make as much sense as raising marginal rates at say, the $500K, $1 million, and $10 million brackets.