The great Bush 'deregulation' mythhttp://www.jeffjacoby.com/602/the-great-bush-deregulation-myth********************************************
On July 31, 2002, declaring that free markets must not be "a financial free-for-all guided only by greed," he[Bush] signed the Sarbanes-Oxley law, a sweeping overhaul of corporate fraud, securities, and accounting laws. Among its many tough provisions, the law created a new regulatory agency to oversee public accounting firms and auditors, and imposed an array of new requirements for financial reporting and corporate audits.
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