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Liberal Democrats Have Promised to "Die in the Ditch" to Make a Consumer Financial Prot... - 0 views

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    Where to put the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), which will centralize the writing and (to some degree) enforcement of federal financial regulations on such things as mortgages, savings accounts, and consumer debt. Should it be an independent agency, like the Securities and Exchange Commission, or a subunit of the Treasury Department or the Federal Reserve?
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Fed and other regulators need policing | Reuters - 0 views

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    Fed and other regulators need policing: economist http://t.co/AqDLKPd
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Cleansing the Temple | The American Prospect - 0 views

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    Can financial reforms straighten out one of America's most byzantine institutions, the Federal Reserve?
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U.S. PIRG // Standing Up to Powerful Interests - 0 views

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Harry Reid: Wall Street's Joyride is Over // I Think He Overstates the Case for His Fin... - 0 views

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    He overstates the case for his Wall Street reform bill...by a LONG shot.
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Why Didn't Obama Back Busting Up Big Banks? | Mother Jones - 0 views

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    Why didn't the White House back the break-up of big banks? | Mother Jones | #p2 http://bit.ly/awxeg3
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Safe Banking Act | Breaking Up 'Too Big to Fail' Banks | Summary - 0 views

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Brown, Kaufman Introduce The Safe Banking Act Of 2010 | FDL News Desk - 0 views

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    "Brown, Kaufman Introduce The Safe Banking Act Of 2010"
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Obama marks crisis by urging Wall Street to act before Congress | TheHill.com - 0 views

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    "You don't have to wait to use plain language in your dealings with consumers. You don't have to wait to put the 2009 bonuses of your senior executives up for a shareholder vote," Obama said. "You don't have to wait for a law to overhaul your pay system so that folks are rewarded for long-term performance instead of short-term gains."
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The Big Bank Lobby: Too Big to Bare? | OurFuture.org - 0 views

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    Clearly, the only thing that limits the power of the banking lobby is the anger of American voters that the very banks that drove the economy over the cliff and were bailed out by taxpayers are now spending lavishly to block reforms needed to insure this doesn't happen again. That popular anger makes legislators reluctant to appear in the banks' pockets in public.
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What the BP spill reveals about U.S. democracy | SocialistWorker.org - 0 views

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    "...big business has cemented an unholy alliance with big government against the interests of ordinary Americans, who, of course, are the great majority of Americans. The great majority of Americans no longer matter."
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