Tag Archives: Financial Regulatory Reform

Obama Dares Republicans to Fight Wall St. Bill

By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & GLENN THRUSH For weeks, the White House strategy on financial regulatory reform remained an open question: Would President Barack Obama water down his bill just to get something passed — the way he did on health care?  A Palinesque “Hell no!” was the answer coming from the White House on Wednesday [...]

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Dems play Wall. St. bash-and-take

By: MARTIN KADY II on April 13, 2010 Democrats are playing the classic bite-the-hand-that feeds-you game as they gear up for a major Wall Street reform debate. The populist rhetoric is this: Big banks are greedy, Wall Street caused the melt down and we should crack down on the millionaires and billionaires who brought the [...]

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Labor plans march on Wall Street

AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka says more than 10,000 union supporters will “march on Wall Street” on April 29 in support of a financial-transactions tax and higher taxes on private-equity and hedge funds. The march coincides with Senate action on financial regulatory reform, an Obama administration priority for the spring. Workers will flood subways and [...]

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