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'Volcker Rule' Stalls in Senate (online.wsj.com)
Key senators are expected to scrap President Barack Obama's proposal to prohibit commercial banks from certain risky trading activities, people familiar with the matter said, a setback for the... More
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Geithner Calls Meeting on Banking Rules as Action Heats Up (blogs.wsj.com)
A lot of action is expected this week in the Senate – and in the Obama administration – over the White House’s push for new financial rules. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd... More
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US' Geithner pushes for independent consumer agency (www.reuters.com)
The Obama administration is still fighting for a single, independent consumer financial protection agency, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday as lawmakers haggled over a financial... More
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Hightower Lowdown | How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform
(www.hightowerlowdown.org)
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of... More
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Chris Dodd Is Sick of Waiting for Richard Shelby on Financial Reform (www.reuters.com)
Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is working with a Republican on financial regulatory reform, reports the Washington Post, but not with his counterpart, ranking member Richard Shelby, Ala. “After he and Shelby... More
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Campaign builds to include new consumer protection agency in financial reform (www.washingtonpost.com)
With a proposed overhaul of financial regulations facing stiff headwinds in the Senate, consumer advocates have redoubled their efforts to portray opponents as favoring big banks over the interests of... More
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Corker: Senate can overcome impasse on financial reform (thehill.com)
There's still hope for the Senate to craft a financial regulation reform bill that can win bipartisan support, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asserted Tuesday.
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'Too Big To Fail' Has Only One Solution (industry.bnet.com)
No financial firm should be too big to fail, said Federal Reserve Bank of New York chief William Dudley in a speech yesterday. But he’s oddly silent on the logical consequence of that ethos —... More
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Dodd Calls Obama Plan Too Grand (www.nytimes.com)
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee warned on Tuesday that the Obama administration’s new proposals to rein in Wall Street firms ran the risk of derailing months of delicate negotiations... More
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Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Luntz Backs the Big Lie (www.banksterusa.org)
Republicans are on the defensive. As we enter the 2010 election cycle, Republicans are a bit worried that Americans might remember how their maniacal push to deregulate Wall Street resulted in the... More
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