News Source: Miami Herald
| 2 months ago
President Obama urges new banking regulations After devoting money and time in search of a rescue for the ailing banking sector, President Barack Obama on Wednesday demanded tough new regulations to keep financial institutions in check and avoid...
News Source: Star Tribune
| 2 months ago
Halting the financial sector's death plunge is arguably the government's most measurable achievement this year. Yet as President Barack Obama observes the one-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse, his administration's increasingly sunny...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
President Barack Obama wants Congress to act this year on what is billed as the most sweeping financial regulatory reform since the 1930s, despite a crush of other business, a senior aide said Friday. Lawrence Summers, chairman of Obama's National...
News Source: Washington Post
| 2 months ago
The Obama administration is retooling its rescue of the financial system, looking to wind down programs viewed as having run their course while considering new initiatives to address areas of lingering concern, such as small businesses and community...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 2 months ago
The White House's top economic adviser, facing stiff opposition in Congress to giving the Federal Reserve more power, suggested Friday that other federal regulators could join the central bank in regulating systemic risk to the nation's financial...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Shear Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 11, 2009; 7:04 PM A top economic adviser to President Obama began a concerted White House effort on Friday to claim credit for the improving economy, declaring that the turnaround is "not, in our...