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Abolish the accounting and broker regulators and fold them into the SEC

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 27, p. 830. Written by David R. Burton, Robert Bowes.

Abolish the accounting and broker regulators and fold them into the SEC

The document says “shouldWho acts: CongressHow: legislationIn: Securities and Exchange Commission and Related Agencies · David R. Burtonp. 830 in the PDF
What the document says

“PCAOB and FINRA should be abolished, and their regulatory functions should be merged into the SEC.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 830

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board oversees auditors and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority regulates brokers. The part also asks Congress to establish an independent board to report within 18 months on how far the functions of other self-regulatory organizations, which it says are no longer self-regulatory in any meaningful sense, should move to the Commission.

What the document actually says

“PCAOB and FINRA should be abolished, and their regulatory functions should be merged into the SEC.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 830
That sentence, in plain words

Close these two bodies. Move their work into the market watchdog.

What this is about

Two private bodies help police finance. One checks auditors, one checks brokers. The book says the main agency should do both jobs.

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