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The forces of darkness overwhelm bank reform

robert-pringle

It is little short of disgraceful that, according to the Financial Times (20 April), US banks spent $500m of shareholders' funds last year on trying to stop the Dodd regulatory reform bill going ahead (named after Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee). Indeed, according to the report, "this sum will be dwarfed over the next few weeks as the bill approaches endgame."

How can bank management get away with spending other people's money on such lobbying - when shareholders

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