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Financial Reform

July 16, 2010 Senate Plans Vote On Unemployment Extension Send by thetaxdude Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to hold a procedural vote on extending unemployment benefits next Tuesday and a vote on the financial reform bill this Thursday. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Can You Hear Goldman Sachs Laughing? Send by Blinker1315 After a big wind-up, the SEC is essentially allowing Goldman Sachs to redeem itself for the price of a few days' revenue. This is toothless financial reform. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 New Stiff Financial Reform Bill Passes Congress Send by reand The Congress has passed the newly reformed Financial reform bill on banks and Wall Street, the certain bill clamps down on lending practices and expanding consumer protection, this bill is said to be a prevention of 2008?s great depression that brought America?s economy, and the whole world gasping for breath [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Obama?s Next Act Posted by Marianne Puni By Charles Krauthammer Friday, July 16, 2010 In the political marketplace, there?s now a run on Obama shares. The left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November when, his own press [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Five Reasons To Cheer The Financial Reform Bill | FrumForum Send by Eli Lehrer The financial reform bill is far from perfect, but it does have some good points that are worth noting. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Goldman Sachs To Pay $550M: ?Largest Penalty Ever? Posted by Marianne Puni Scandal comes with a high price tag, as Goldman Sachs can tell you. The institution admitted its failure to disclose crucial information to its clients. The $550 million penalty is not a huge financial blow to Goldman, but it is big enough to make many Wall Street businesses re-evaluate their practi [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Financial Reform. Woohoo? - Laurie Essig - Class Warfare - True/Slant Send by Laurie Essig The financial reform bill has finally passed. Should we celebrate or feel even more disgusted that Washington cannot extract itself from the grips of Wall St. lobbyists? Disgusted, says Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), the only Democratic [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Congressman Al Green Categorizes Senate Passage Of The Financial Services Reform Bill As ?Fair And Historic? Posted by Marianne Puni Congressman Al Green (TX-09) has indicated his support for the Senate passage of the Conference Report on the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (H.R.4173), which passed by a vote of 60-39. According to Green, this bill is ?not only fair for the American people, but historic for the [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 TRIBUNE WATCHDOG: Sweetening Stresses Pension System Posted by Marianne Puni Shortly before Tim Baldermann retired as Chicago Ridge's police chief, the town boosted his salary by more than $70,000, handing the 44-year-old as big a paycheck in retirement as he earned full time on the police force. The deputy police chief, who sat on the pension board, received a similar deal. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 New Financial Reform - DIYMA.com Send by slow2.2sonoma We are going to now more heavily regulate the financial industry, but who is going to regulate the government? After all it was them who created the. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Least Said.. The Sooner Amended.. Posted by Marianne Puni Okay the US Senate had a decided majority to pass the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill. It now awaits President Obama?s signature(which may have already happened)..But what is the big deal about it..? Not all the vox and opinionations, interpretations and.. and.. the rest of it?that?s for sure! No, [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Never Yet Melted America Gets Financial Reform Send by JDZ The New York Times rejoiced in the passage of the massive and occult 2300-page Financial Reform Bill with its customary propagandistic progressive nonsense. Congress approved a sweeping expansion of federal financial regulation on [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 City Living Is Expensive Posted by Marianne Puni next time a self-professed Democrat complains about how the Obama administration seems, I don?t know ? limp, point out that the passed health care reform for the first time in a generation, and then an overhaul of the rules of the financial system. in the same year. holy shit! Aarti and I are gonna [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Consumer Confidential: Financial Reform, Apple Speaks, Allen Gives ... Send by David Lazarus Here's your things-we-do-for-love Thursday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- It may not be everything consumers could want, but 2300 pages of financial reform legislation have vaulted past Republican opponents and could [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Shelby Calls For Financial Reform Repeal S E N A T U S Send by senatus Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL) tells ABC News that Republicans would like to see financial reform legislation repealed. President Obama took on House GOP Leader John Boehner's call for repealing financial [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Sen. Shelby On Financial Reform: Repeal It - George Stephanopoulos ... Send by George Stephanopoulos President Obama took on House GOP Leader John Boehner's call for repealing financial reform before it's signed yesterday. But Boehner's call was backed on. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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