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Can Wall St. mend its rift with President Obama?

Source: CBS News, Nov 8 2012, 7:48am CST

"We look forward to continuing to work with President Obama and a new Congress on a host of important and immediate issues. With the election now over, it is vital that we return to the work at hand, namely, the continued implementation o ...

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4 hours ago

Obama nominates 2 Senate aides as SEC commissioners

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 25 2013, 2:20am CDT

Kara M. Stein would replace Elisse B. Walter as a Democratic commissioner and Michael S. Piwowar would succeed Troy A. Paredes as a Republican appointee on the five-member commission that oversees the count ...

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8 hours ago

Video: Rare confirmation of Obama pick prompts Supreme Court talk

Source: MSNBC  |   May 24 2013, 9:51pm CDT

>>> if you're president, what are you looking for in a supreme court justice ? as president you get to pick people for the court. obviously you want them to be qualified, to be a good judge. you want them to share some of your ...

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28 weeks ago


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"She's really the worst nightmare for Wall Street ... Her ideas about consumer protection and regulation go far beyond anything coming out of the White House."


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9 hours ago

US: Wall Street falls at open as Fed plans gauged

Source: Business Times Singapore  |   May 24 2013, 8:42pm CDT

[NEW YORK] US stocks fell at the open on Friday, putting Wall Street on track for its first weekly decline since mid April, amid concern the US central bank may scale back its support to the ...

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12 hours ago

Why Did Citigroup Try to Overturn an Overhaul?

Source: The New York Times  |   May 24 2013, 5:45pm CDT

Wall Street’s true ambitions are often revealed in mind-numbing minutiae. The latest example is Citigroup ’s participation in writing a House of Representatives bill that intends to roll back an arcane part of the Dodd-Frank financial se ...

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12 hours ago

Will the Banks' Word Be Law? Wall Street Drafts Reform Rollback Bills

Source: Daily Finance  |   May 24 2013, 5:36pm CDT

Getty Images A dispatch from the Dodd-Frank wars in our nation's capital: Big banks seeking to roll back financial reform have returned to lawmakers' good graces -- not just Republicans, who opposed the regulatory bill in the fi ...

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14 hours ago

Is Wall Street literally writing America's laws now?

Source: The Week  |   May 24 2013, 4:09pm CDT

bill called the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act recently sailed through the House Financial Services Committee. But when The New York Times went through emails from a lobbyist to the congressmen who wrote it, the paper discovered an unofficial co-aut ...

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14 hours ago

Banksters' lobbyists writing financial bills to water down Dodd-Frank

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 24 2013, 3:48pm CDT

Maybe just to ensure that no bankster will ever face the slimmest possibility of being convicted and sent to prison, they're now writing the laws that would govern them, with the blessing of Republicans, of course. One bill that sailed thro ...

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14 hours ago

Wall Street Shaped Bill Easing Oversight, and Kept Contributions Coming

Source: Open Secrets  |   May 24 2013, 3:31pm CDT

Banking industry lobbyists helped members of the House Financial Services Committee craft a bill loosening regulators' oversight of various types of trading, with lobbyists from Citibank playing a large role in the p ...

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15 hours ago

Robert Reich: Why Democrats Can't Be Trusted to Control Wall Street

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 24 2013, 3:27pm CDT

Who needs Republicans when Wall Street has the Democrats? With the help of congressional Democrats, the Street is rolling back financial reforms enacted after its near meltdown. According to the New York Times , a bil ...

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