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SEC on a Dodd-Frank ‘death march,’ Gallagher says

The SEC commissioner opined that the root cause of the financial crisis was failed federal housing policy and loose monetary policy, none of which was addressed in Dodd-Frank.

By Melanie Waddell | Updated on July 16, 2014
SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher. Photo: AP

SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher said Wednesday that since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act four years ago, the law’s rulemaking mandates have been an “unfettered distraction” for the securities regulator and that the agency has been on a “death march” to finish Dodd-Frank rulemakings that are unrelated to its core mission.

“The amount of time consumed” at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Dodd-Frank rulemakings that are “entirely unrelated to the agency’s core mission and entirely unrelated to what caused the financial crisis itself is a shame, and taxpayers should be horrified,” Gallagher told attendees at an event held jointly by the libertarian Cato Institute and George Mason’s market-oriented Mercatus Center at the Newseum in Washington.

The event was titled “After Dodd-Frank: The Future of Financial Markets.”

Gallagher opined that the root cause of the financial crisis was “failed federal housing policy and loose monetary policy,” none of which was addressed in Dodd-Frank.

While the agency has completed 42 rulemakings out of 100 mandated ones, Gallagher added that it was a “silly notion” to think that the SEC could actually meet the one- to two-year deadlines imposed by Congress.

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