State what the S.E.C. is and the departments it associates with

 Hello, This is to be a college written 6 page paper. The goal of the paper is to

1. state what the S.E.C. is and the departments it associates with.

 2. Brief back ground on past SEC history, Acts, ammendments,

3. Point out the short comings of the SEC that lead to the stock market crash of 2008

4. a Bibliogaphy page

Im going to make a presentation of this information

Definition of SEC

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sec.asp

Great information on the S.E.C departments, what they are responsible for. When the SEC came into existence, followed by the amendments in 2007 and 2010

http://www.sec.gov/about/whatwedo.shtml

Dobb Frank act 2010, to protect investors and monitor the” to big to fail “

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/13/dodd-frank-act-affect-me.asp

SEC regulatory failures,  I know this is Wikipedia and can’t be used for a paper because of inaccuracies but link to other sites is helpful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission

·       Bernard Madoff

·        Could SEC Have Stopped Madoff Scam In 1992?

·         http://web.archive.org/web/20090201052739/http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/23/madoff-fraud-sec-biz-wall-cx_lm_1223madoff.html

·       Allen Stanford

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·       Destruction of document

·         http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817?page=4

Please look at the information given in Wikipedia link I sent. In the ref section those articles are great for the paper with citing work. Do not site WIKI

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