And not just on health care reform. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), head of the Banking Committee, announced this morning that, after weeks of financial reform negotiations with the panel’s senior Republican, Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.), the two sides “have reached an impasse.”
While I still hope that we will ultimately
Taking a quick cue from Massachusetts, the Obama administration is putting on its populist hat this week to take on the nation’s largest financial institutions in the name of consumer protection. The president’s proposal — which would prevent large Wall Street firms that trade outside of their clients’ More…
It’s no mystery that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the ultimate Wall Street insider. But it seems that more and more Democrats are losing their patience with what they perceive as his protectionism of the finance industry at the expense of consumers and taxpayers. The latest More…
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