“President Obama urged the nation’s top financial regulators on Monday to move faster on new rules for Wall Street, telling them in a private White House meeting that they must work to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Administration officials and some lawmakers have expressed frustration that critical parts of Mr. Obama’s overhaul of the financial system, which was voted into law three years ago and is known as the Dodd-Frank act, remain unenforced as an alphabet soup of federal agencies wrangle over how to adopt it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/business/obama-presses-for-action-on-bank-rules.html?_r=1&
Related posts:
Embargoed EU Goods Actively Re-Imported to Russia via Belarus
Bank of Cyprus head fired under bailout deal
Hank the cat is running for U.S. Senate
Library of Congress to archive Americans’ tweets
Rob McEwen Interview: On Gold Prices, Gold Miners And Bitcoin
Marine’s 11-year war crimes conviction overturned
Start-Ups Fill Void Left by Spain’s 26% Unemployment Rate
Kerry downplays new reports of NSA spying on allies
EMC raises $5.5bn via corporate bonds to fund share buybacks
How We Got Busted Buying Drugs On Silk Road's Black Market
Ex-Hillsboro cop surrenders after shootout with police with wife, daughter at his side
North Korean farmers to be given unprecedented ownership of crops
Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm with thoughts alone
U.S. Army investigates sexual assault prevention officer for sex abuse
Germans Hide Cash in Diapers as Swiss Secrecy Crumbles