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Obama's G20 Financial Reform Letter Shows Empty Rhetoric: Financial Reform Has Failed

BaselineScenario.com | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House-Senate reconciliation process is still underway and some details will still change. But the broad contours of "financial reform" are already...

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Friday Talking Points [122] -- Bikini Bottom Update

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since it's the Friday after month's-end, the new monthly unemployment numbers were released today. Which adds another bar to the "bikini bottom" char...

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Congress Goes to Bat for Wall Street

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zach Carter

No matter what else is ultimately enacted in the name of Wall Street reform, Congress decided last night that it will not confront the single greatest problem in the U.S. economy: Too Big To Fail.

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Durbin, Number Two Senate Democrat, Backs Breaking Up Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate's number two Democrat, took to the floor Tuesday to back an amendment to Wall Street reform that would break up big b...

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Republicans Filibuster Our Financial Future

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Zach Carter

With two-thirds of the nation supporting reform, any political party that throws in its lot with Wall Street will pay a major price come November. No amount of Wall Street campaign cash can counter voter outrage.

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