Wish I had time to get into the bill. What is your opinion? Sounds like you are up on it a lot more than many here.
As someone reported in this thread in the 150 to 200 comments, a lot of democrats have money and want to keep it so they might favor giving Wall Street free reign. I don’t know how these particular democrats lean, that is why I listed them plus the areas they represent.
I do know that Countrywide Financial’s CEO was paid $140,000,000 in 2007, but in 2008 had cut to around $100,000,000. Lehman Brothers CEO went from around $40M to above $70M in the same period. On the other hand Citibank’s CEO cut from many $millions down to $1M in 2008. But Goldman Sachs also went up from roughly the same figures as Lehman Brothers. Then again they had pull at the White House. So we see Countrywide and Lehman are gone, but Citi and GS survived. However, in 2008 when GS stockholders learned that the top 3 executives all were paid over $65million, they rebelled and over 40% voted for a stockholder’s advisory on executive compensation. The next year the CEO salary was down to a dainty $25M. Subsequently it became very hard to find that information.
Google “Forbes CEO Compensation” for years that interest you. Up to about 2010 it was easy to do research there. Companies could be compared within categories like Drugs and Medical, Energy, Money and Banking. Then that feature was done away with and companies were listed from 500th down to first, with only a few names per page. I guess someone didn’t want us peons to be able to see what was going on with ease.
Bottom line, I think too big to fail should be broken up like the oil companies were a hundred years ago. Regular banks and financial services companies should be separate, and commissions should not be structured so that the salesman and his bosses run off with their money with no penalty for structuring and selling instruments that are bogus and known to be dishonest.