Will Obama Fight For The Consumer Financial Protection Agency?

Washington Post:

The next couple of months will be crucial in determining the shape of the financial system for decades to come. And so far, the signs are not encouraging.

The Obama administration is trying to refocus our attention on regulation, beginning with the president's speech in New York two weeks ago. The financial system, after all, brought us a near-catastrophic crisis that turned a mild recession into a painfully severe one. And Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says that he still plans to pass a regulatory reform bill before the end of the year.

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Comments

[JTPurcell]

09:36 PM on 09/29/2009

Let us get real folks. President Obama will never do anything 'real' that is in the interest of t h e American people.

[Brian Pugh]

11:26 PM on 09/29/2009

oh really, as opposed to Bush who started an unnecessary war in Iraq in the "best interest" of the american people, killing young american soldiers to settle a grudge

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