<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Editor\'s Edge &#187; regulation</title>
	<atom:link href="http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/category/regulation/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com</link>
	<description>Steve Piontek Editor-in-Chief</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:12:27 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>No Joke</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/03/11/no-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/03/11/no-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial services reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s obvious from the fight that’s going on in Congress over whether to even form a Consumer Protection Agency and where to put it that American consumers have a major problem: Namely, that collectively they don’t have even one pocket deep enough for Congress to fit in.
This is in stark contrast to the banking industry’s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/03/11/no-joke/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dirty Little Secret</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/11/dirty-little-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/11/dirty-little-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life settlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was originally going to headline this piece “Run, Sarah, Run.”  But then I realized what a joke it was—and a one-liner at that—so I had to turn to something else to fill the space.
And then I thought: How about the American Council of Life Insurance’s February 3 statement regarding life settlement securitizations, which uses the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2010/02/11/dirty-little-secret/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Too Big To Fail?</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/10/29/too-big-to-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/10/29/too-big-to-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform; regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are in November already, well past the first-year anniversary of the Panic of 2008, and any heat, not to mention action, on financial reform has been reduced to a slow sauté from a flame more suited to stir-fry.  The debate on whether some companies are too big to fail has just kind of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/10/29/too-big-to-fail/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Asking The Wolves</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/09/22/asking-the-wolves/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/09/22/asking-the-wolves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=78</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit I don’t know any sheep farmers, but even I know that it’s not customary for these folks to ask the wolf for suggestions about protecting the sheep.  Questions about fences and guard dogs are not something about which the farmer would consult with the predator.   This is not horse (or sheep) [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/09/22/asking-the-wolves/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Quack, Quack</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/08/03/quack-quack/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/08/03/quack-quack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=62</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The attention span of the American public-never great to begin with unless a story has to do with the death or scandal of a celebrity like Michael Jackson, in which case the appetite is insatiable-is giving public figures a freer and freer ride as time goes by.
One area in which this is becoming increasingly obvious [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/08/03/quack-quack/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Battle Royal</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/13/battle-royal/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/13/battle-royal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If this was a sports event or some really stadium-packing group like the Rolling Stones or U2, it would have been sold out in minutes and the scalpers out in force.  But as the event I am referring to is the battle over health care reform that will be fought out in the halls of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/13/battle-royal/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Tantalus Redux</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember for a fact, but it seems to me that I&#8217;ve already used the mythic image of Sisyphus to describe the life insurance industry&#8217;s seemingly doomed challenge of getting Congress to approve an optional federal charter.  Just when the king of Corinth gets the stone almost to the top of the hill, down [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/06/03/tantalus-redux/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Stop Stressing</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/05/21/stop-stressing/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/05/21/stop-stressing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 17:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal government has completed its stress tests of the nation&#8217;s 19 largest banks and bank-like institutions and in this era of trillions of dollars, there is good news.  The amount of capital deemed to be needed by these banks is a mere $75 billion. 
I don&#8217;t know about you, but after what we&#8217;ve become accustomed [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/05/21/stop-stressing/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Snarky Snoopy</title>
		<link>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/04/27/snarky-snoopy/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/04/27/snarky-snoopy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Piontek, Editor-in-Chief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annuities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was more than a little surprised to see Met Life weighing in on the side of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the SEC&#8217;s move with Rule 151A to regulate some indexed annuities as securities.
Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have been.  But truth is I can&#8217;t recall one instance in the long life of the Peanuts [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://lifeandhealtheditor.com/2009/04/27/snarky-snoopy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
