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Risk Management Links of the Day: 12.15.09

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  • Despite yesterday’s passage of Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (HR 4173) in the House, regulators across the globe are still dragging their feet on financial sector reform. Paul Volcker continues to tell everyone who will listen — and even those who won’t — about the grave need to restructure the industry, but no one is doing anything tangible about it. “Two years after the start of the deepest recession since the 1930s, no U.S. or European authority has put in force a single measure that would transform the financial system, based on data compiled by Bloomberg. No rule- or law-making body is actively considering the automatic dismantling of banks that Volcker told Congress are sheltered by access to an implicit safety net.” Acclaimed economist and Nobel-winner Joseph Stiglitz says Volcker is “spot on” and Robert Creamer makes a similar “if it’s too big to fail, it’s too big to exist” plea over at The Huffington Post. Bankers, for their part, assured Obama today that they are willing to play ball during their visit to the White House. We’ll see.
  • The New Yorker‘s 12-page feature “The Most Failed State” profiles Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and details the desolate national landscape that has given rise to the pirates that dominate the country’s coastline. (Subscription required) Ahmedou Ould-Abdullah, the U.N.’s special representative to Somalia, offers this bleak analysis: “Somalia is just as bad as it has ever been, perhaps worse. I know that it is politically incorrect to say so, but there can be no humanitarian ’emergency’ that should continue for twenty years — it’s a contradiction in terms.”
  • Some are concerned that China’s rush to embrace nuclear power in lieu of dirty coal plants could lead builders to cut corners in regards to safety. “China must maintain nuclear safeguards in a national business culture where quality and safety sometimes take a back seat to cost-cutting, profits and outright corruption — as shown by scandals in the food, pharmaceutical and toy industries and by the shoddy construction of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan Province earthquake last year.”

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Toys in the Attic

The final price tag for Mattel’s 2007 recalls of Chinese-made toys that were found to contain lead paint could exceed $70 million after the toymaker and its Fisher-Price subsidiary agreed to settle a consumer class action lawsuit last week.

The latest settlement puts an end to 22 lawsuits and provides refunds for toy buyers and reimbursement for any lead testing expenses they may have incurred after testing their children’s lead exposure.

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Mattel will also create a new, court-monitored quality insurance program and donate 5,000 to the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions.

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The recalls prompted a new federal law mandating third party testing for lead and other harmful contaminants for all toy manufacturers (although the Consumer Product Safety Commission recently allowed Mattel to use its own labs) and was yet another example of the growing concern about the safety of Chinese-made products. In the past three years, consumers have seen defective tires and drywall, and contaminated toothpaste, pet food, milk, and medicine, in addition to the lead-painted toys, all of which were made in China.

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Modern Plague Hits China

China is moving swiftly to quarantine an area that has seen three men die of pneumonic plague, the bacteria of which, Yersinia pestis, is the same bacteria that caused the bubonic plague.

Chinese officials have quarantined the town of Ziketan, home to 10,000 people in the northwest province of Qinghai. Police have also set up checkpoints around the area in question while medics work to disinfect the entire town.

About 10 other people inside the town have so far contracted the disease, according to state media. No-one is being allowed leave the area, and the authorities are trying to track down people who had contact with the men who died.

Health officials say there’s no need for letting fear rule in this case since modern medicine is well equipped to handle the breakout — mostly due to the fact that health officials have a lot more knowledge handling this type of infectious disease as they do other, newly-formed ones, such as H1N1 or Avian Flu.

Will will follow this breaking news story closely — be sure to check back for updates.