Main Street applauds President Obama's tough talk to Wall Street bigs

Release Date 23 Apr, 2010 in New York Daily News

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Main Street applauds President Obama's tough talk to Wall Street bigs New York Daily News - Glenn Blain - 23 Apr, 2010 ALTAMONT, NY - Main Street had a message for President Obama on Thursday: Go get 'em! In this small, working-class village 20 miles west of Albany, people had little sympathy for big-money executives - and agreed it was time to crack ...
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Obama tells Wall Street to join in on regulatory efforts USA Today - David J. Lynch - 23 Apr, 2010 WASHINGTON �" President Obama on Thursday urged Wall Street to drop its opposition to a proposed reshaping of financial industry regulation. And he hit back at Republicans who have derided the effort as a recipe for ...
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Senate scrambles to unite on finance reform bill Los Angeles Times - 23 Apr, 2010 A regulatory overhaul vote, set for Monday, is a test for President Obama and bipartisanship. As President Obama strikes a firm but conciliatory tone with Wall Street, the Senate steps up negotiations in hopes of a bipartisan deal on regulatory reform ...
	Financial District workers can't bear to watch President Obama take Wall ... New York Daily News - Matthew Lysiak, Kate Nocera - 23 Apr, 2010 Financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during President Obama's speech on Thursday. What did you think of the President's speech on Wall St. reform? ...
Obama to Wall Street: Stop fighting financial overhaul MiamiHerald.com - Margaret Talev, David Lightman - 23 Apr, 2010 Calling on Wall Street to stop fighting financial reforms, President Barack Obama touted his proposed overhaul as in the best interests of the country. BY MARGARET TALEV AND DAVID LIGHTMAN NEW YORK -- Speaking Thursday in the shadow of Wall Street, ...
Wall Street reform: The hang-ups CNNMoney - Jennifer Liberto - 23 Apr, 2010 WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- With President Obama pushing hard, the Senate is on the verge of taking up a hotly disputed Wall Street reform measure. On Monday afternoon, the Senate will vote ...
Fix Wall Street MiamiHerald.com - 23 Apr, 2010 President Obama made good use of the bully pulpit on Thursday to chastise Wall Street for fighting reform of the nation's financial system. As Mr. Obama made clear, Wall Street's leaders have a responsibility to cooperate with efforts to head off ...
Obama moves to close deal on financial reform msnbc.com - John W. Schoen - 23 Apr, 2010 Part rebuke, part olive branch and part sales pitch, President Barack Obama's speech Thursday exhorting bankers to "join us, instead of fighting us" on financial reform appeared to have won over some on Wall Street. ...
Street fightin' man: Obama's limited partnership on financial reform New York Daily News - 23 Apr, 2010 The line that drew perhaps the most notice in President Obama's speech about rewriting America's financial regulations was aimed at the captains of Wall Street. He said he had come to New York with a plea: "I am here today specifically when I speak to ...
A Scolding for Wall Street Honchos Wall Street Journal - Joe Bel Bruno, Mary Pilon - 23 Apr, 2010 NEW YORK�"Wall Street executives typically react with irritation to Washington tongue-lashings. But Thursday, after President Barack Obama urged them to stop opposing his sweeping regulatory revamp, they appeared mostly ...
	Obama scolds the nation's leading bankers Houston Chronicle - Darlene Superville, Tom Raum - 23 Apr, 2010 From left, Bob Greifeld, CEO of Nasdaq, Paul Calello, CEO of Credit Suisse, and Bob Diamond, president of Barclays, listen Thursday to President Barack Obama. NEW YORK �" President Barack Obama rebuked Wall Street ...
Obama seeks compromise as Senate Democrats set vote on financial overhaul Chicago Tribune - Janet Hook, Jim Puzzanghera - 23 Apr, 2010 Senate Democratic leaders scheduled a key vote on a proposed financial regulatory overhaul for Monday, setting off frantic negotiations to complete a bipartisan deal as President ...
	Fact Check: Financial Reform ABC News - David Muir - 23 Apr, 2010 President Barack Obama delivers remarks in New York's Cooper Union College, Thursday, April 22, 2010. Without change on Wall Street, he says, America is doomed to repeat the past. The Republicans say proposed financial regulatory reform ...
	Obama to Wall Street: financial reform is in your interest Christian Science Monitor - Mark Trumbull - 23 Apr, 2010 In a speech before many of the richest Wall Street bankers, Obama argued, 'We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.' But financial reform could have big downsides for bankers. President Barack Obama speaks about financial reform at the ...
Obama Challenges Financial Industry to Join Regulatory Overhaul BusinessWeek - Roger Runningen, Hans Nichols - 23 Apr, 2010 April 23 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama challenged the financial industry yesterday to join rather than fight the effort to overhaul market regulations as he sought to close the deal for enactment of his ...
	Obama urges Wall Street to end resistance to financial overhaul Austin American-Statesman - 23 Apr, 2010 Richard Drew/AP Without change, Wall Street will repeat the mistakes of the past, President Barack Obama told about 700 people at Cooper Union art school in New York on Thursday. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK �" President Barack Obama rebuked Wall Street ...
Obama to Wall St.: 'Join Us, Instead of Fighting Us' New York Times - Peter Baker, David M. Herszenhorn - 23 Apr, 2010 President Obama took his rhetoric of reform on Thursday to the nation's financial capital in a high-profile foray to chide Wall Street bankers for their “reckless practices” and to press for tighter regulations ...
Financial reform gaining speed Denver Daily News - Gene Davis - 23 Apr, 2010 Coloradans are both hopeful and skeptical of a proposal to overhaul the nation's financial industry following remarks by the president yesterday in which he scolded Wall Street for attempting to resist the reform effort. President Obama, speaking near ...
	Arena Digest: Obama on Wall Street Politico - 23 Apr, 2010 President Obama spoke on Wall Street on Thursday. AP We have joined with the president in calling for an end to “too big to fail,” protecting consumers and bringing transparency and regulation to derivatives markets. We need to close the clear gaps in ...
	Financial regulation reform faces stiff opposition Los Angeles Times - ‎Apr 21, 2010‎ Senate panel approves third controversial piece of overhaul package. Obama to make his case in New York on Thursday. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and committee member Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga. ...
	Obama to Wall Street: Work with me on 'common-sense rules' USA Today - 23 Apr, 2010 President Obama urged Wall Street executives today to help him pass new financial regulations, even as he denounced "the furious effort of industry lobbyists" to influence legislation pending in Congress. "I'm sure that some of these lobbyists work for ...
Cooper Union's Place in Presidential History NBC New York - Michael Tomaso - 23 Apr, 2010 When Abraham Lincoln stepped onto the stage of the Great Hall at the Cooper Union, he was to give the biggest speech of his life. Facing a skeptical New York audience, Lincoln delivered a speech that changed the course of history. ...
Obama sells fix for monitoring Wall Street USA Today - Mimi Hall, Richard Wolf - ‎Apr 21, 2010‎ WASHINGTON �" President Obama heads to the nation's financial center today to try to capitalize on what may be the Democrats' most popular policy proposal: regulating Wall Street. As the Senate nears debate on a ...
Where Are the Tea Party Protests About Wall Street? Huffington Post (blog) - 23 Apr, 2010 We're down to the wire here on financial reform. I can't think of a better time to put pressure on Wall Street and Washington to make sure there is adequate regulation to ensure that we never have another bailout. The AFL-CIO is about to have a protest ...
	Senators push for deal on financial overhaul as Obama asks Wall Street to join in Seattle Times - Janet Hook, Jim Puzzanghera - 23 Apr, 2010 Senate Democratic leaders set Monday for a key vote on financial regulatory legislation, setting off frantic negotiations to complete a bipartisan deal as President Obama urged Wall Street leaders "to join us, instead of fighting us. ...
	Wall Street, governments are targets in midterm election Reuters - Jonathan Ernst, Chris Wilson - ‎Apr 20, 2010‎ US President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office as he returns after a visit in California to the White House in Washington, April 20, 2010. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's the Democrats versus Wall Street and Republicans against Big Government in the ...
Why Financial Reform Now? Why Not a Bill That Creates Jobs? Ideal Taxes Association - Raymond Richman - 23 Apr, 2010 The President's motives in offering a financial reform bill to regulate Wall Street and the banks has all the appearances of a Mein Kampf strategy for national socialism. Like burning down the Reichstag and blaming it on your political foes. ...