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Opinion: Financial Reforms Go Too Far

(April 22) -- As the debate over financial reform intensifies, it's easy to forget that there is a shared desire across the political spectrum to put an end to bailouts and to the idea that any firm should be too big to fail. Supporters of the plan now pending in the Senate argue that it would achieve these goals. It would...

Opinion: Bringing Shadow Banks Into the Light

(April 22) -- With the seemingly endless congressional battle over health care reform finally concluded, the Obama administration has turned its sights this month on reforming the regulations that govern Wall Street and that failed us so massively during 2007 and 2008. The subject is a complicated one (something the...

Needing a Rebound, Obama Cranks Up the Populism

(Jan. 22) – Since his party lost the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, pundits have been proclaiming President Barack Obama in need of a new message. As this week drew to a close, he offered some samples of what it will sound like. Turning up the volume on the fiery populist rhetoric...