Financial Reform

FROM THE BLOGS: Mayor Bloomberg accepts responsibility for city's troubles in dealing with storm The mogul-turned-mayor has taken heat for New York's sluggish response to the blizzard, Chris Rovzar writes at Daily Intel. Liberal fixation with …

It is curious that the New York Times still fails to see the irony in its condemnation of the banks for risk mismanagement failures while at the same time advocating more authority for the regulatory agencies — the SEC, CFTC, FDIC, Treasury,…

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Republicans in Congress says they will revisit Financial Reform Legislation passed this year under Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives. In an interview with The Washington Post, Rep. Spencer Bachus,…

by Chris Bodenner While most of the media are focused on the big wins of the White House and congressional Democrats in the Lame Duck session, Josh Green draws attention to GOP gains: Last week, McConnell succeeded in blocking the omnibus spendi…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama capped a crisis-strewn first two White House years flexing restored power at home and abroad after securing big wins from a supposedly "Lame Duck" Congress. Obama won Senate ratification …

In recent blogs I criticized President Obama for not exercising forceful presidential leadership in the face of Republican Party efforts to impose their more conservative solutions to those urgent domestic social, economic and political problems…

WASHINGTON — As Congress and the president prepare to leave town for Christmas, comparisons to LBJ and FDR are in the air — or at least in the Press Releases of the Democratic Party. But Democrats are not playing FDR's stirring &…