<![CDATA[Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street in Order to Save Main Street to Just Saving Wall Street]]>

1.0 link 217708 <![CDATA[Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street in Order to Save Main Street to Just Saving Wall Street]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/mission-shrink-weve-gone_b_217708.html Remember how, back when taxpayers were being asked to fork over hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street, we were told it was essential to saving Main Street?

Well, in just a few months, we've gone from saving the banks in order to save the economy to just saving the banks. It's the opposite of mission creep.

In announcing his proposed "overhaul of the financial regulatory system," President Obama said, "Financial institutions have an obligation to themselves...

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