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President Obama Takes On Wall Street In New York City Fundraiser

thehill.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few." The audience included me...

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Obama Hosts Fundraiser In New York City, With Wall Street In Tow

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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President Obama is hosting a swanky fundraiser at the Mandarin Oriental in New York tonight -- and about a third of the 200 Democratic donors attendin...

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Blue Dogs Aim To Scrap Obama's Financial Product Safety Commission

Politico | Victoria McGrane | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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Blue Dogs and other conservative Democrats -- uneasy with a key element of President Barack Obama's plan to regulate Wall Street -- are rallying aroun...

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We Need to Support Obama in Overhauling the Financial Industry, Before it's Too Late

John Atlas | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

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I believe its time for the government to exert tough new control over the financial services industry. Polls show that a majority of the American people agree.

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The Mugging of the Common Good

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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These next months are the reckoning. The president and the Congress will step up to the reforms the country needs -- or they will fail the nation in a time of peril. We cannot afford another lost decade.

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Hallelujah, Salvation Is At Hand! Or Is It?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Fundamental problems are not being resolved, but rather papered over: the excess debt of low quality, excess speculation in the financial markets and mushrooming debt and deficits.

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Clinton Labor Secretary: Obama's Wall Street Plan "Does Not Measure Up"

Salon | Robert Reich | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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The plan doesn't stop bankers from making huge, risky bets with other people's money. It does increase capital requirements and oversight, but it does...

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Meltdown 101: Reform plan's impact on consumers

AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

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American consumers have fallen victim to one financial scandal after another in the past decade, from accounting fraud at Enron to illegal late tradin...

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Obama: Unemployment At 10% This Year, Recovery Soon

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

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In an interview with Bloomberg Television, President Obama said unemployment will reach 10 percent this year, even as the economy begins to emerge fro...

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Obama Warns Wall St. About Financial 'Abyss'

bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business

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June 16 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, warning Wall Street not to forget how it almost caused the financial system to collapse, said "sensible...

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Obama Signs Financial Investigation Bill

The New York Times | Kate Phillips | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at curbing financial fraud in the mortgage and other industries, including a provision that crea...

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Obama Credit-Card CEOs Meeting: President To Push New Rules

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday he is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates the tricky fine print, sudden rate i...

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Obama's Credit Card Dog Day Afternoon

Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

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In the current system, credit card companies do not provide an essential service anymore; it's more a societal stranglehold -- a gun to the head of the middle class.

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WH Advisory Board Member: Confident In Obama, Worried About Wall Street Influence

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

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Firmly backing the president's agenda, a key member of the White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board nevertheless said on Friday that he was concer...

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Best Month In the Market in 7 Years? Who Cares?

Ian Welsh | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business

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Repeat after me: The market is not the economy. Of course the market is doing well. The administration promised to put around 2 trillion more dollars into it in various forms.

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Obama Dials Down Wall Street Criticism

Wall Street Journal | MONICA LANGLEY | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON--The Obama administration, after months of criticizing Wall Street, has been scrambling to woo top bankers and financiers to back its lates...

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Gibbs: Not Interested In Popularity Contest Among Newspaper Economists

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration is not in the business of winning "a popularity contest among economists that are interviewed by newspapers," the president's...

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Kudlow Attacks Obama By Defending Corporate Tax Havens

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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On Wednesday morning, the Republican National Committee sent reporters a segment of Larry Kudlow blasting the president's economic policies, in which ...

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Obama Touts Main Street Success As Wall Street Plunges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration hosted an event at the Department of Transportation on Tuesday to mark the first case of stimulus money creating infrastructu...

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