The President announces that he will nominate Richard Cordray to be Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and commends Elizabeth Warren for her work in setting up the new bureau. July 18, 2011.

A video showing the plans of a former executive from the Service Employees International Union. Stephen Lerner talks about creating another financial crisis by attacking JP Morgan. This was first discovered by The Blaze.com.

THE ▀█▀ █▀ █_█ ▀█▀ █▬█ Я Ξ √ Ω LUT ↑ ☼ N There are fresh demonstrations in Madrid against severe budget cuts as the country tries to reduce its massive debt. Spain has been tipped as the next Eurozone economy at risk of needing a bailout, but some say it could be too big to save. RT talks to Jim Corr, a political activist and musician from the Irish band the Corrs. RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com RT on Twitter: twitter.com

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2010 www.amazon.com Watch more clips: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com United States President Barack Obama and key advisers introduced a series of regulatory proposals in June 2009. The proposals address consumer protection, executive pay, bank financial cushions or capital requirements, expanded regulation of the shadow banking system and derivatives, and enhanced authority for the Federal Reserve to safely wind-down systemically important institutions, among others. In January 2010, Obama proposed additional regulations limiting the ability of banks to engage in proprietary trading. The proposals were dubbed “The Volcker Rule”, in recognition of Paul Volcker, who has publicly argued for the proposed changes. The US Senate passed a regulatory reform bill in May 2010, following the House which passed a bill in December 2009. These bills must now be reconciled. The New York Times provided a comparative summary of the features of the two bills, which address to varying extent the principles enumerated by the Obama administration. For instance, the Volcker Rule against proprietary trading is not part of the legislation, though in the Senate bill regulators have the discretion but not the obligation to prohibit these trades. A variety of other regulatory changes have been proposed by economists, politicians, journalists, and business leaders to minimize the impact of the current crisis and prevent recurrence. None of the proposed solutions have yet been implemented. These …

THE ▀█▀ █▀ █_█ ▀█▀ █▬█ Я Ξ √ Ω LUT ↑ ☼ N An ABC – Four Corners documentary about the coming economic crisis, featuring Gerald Celente and Peter Schiff. Original air date: 23rd August, 2010.

Earlier today US President Barack Obama signed a bill that is the most comprehensive financial law to be enacted since the Great Depression. The law, which got final approval from the Senate last week, targets the kind of Wall Street risk-taking that helped trigger a global financial meltdown in 2007-2009. Gerald Celente says that this is only going to harm and will not do enough to change Wall Street.

A brief and simple explanation of why this crisis was doomed to happen given by someone who, in 1999, wrote “the possible Big Bang that scares me the most is the one that could happen the day those genius bank regulators in Basel, playing Gods, manage to introduce a systemic error in the financial system” and then who, while an Executive Director of the World Bank, 2002-2004, did all he could to warn about the utterly faulty regulatory paradigm that had been adopted by Basel… all to no avail. You can find much more here: www.subprimeregulations.blogspot.com financefordevelopment.blogspot.com baselcommittee.blogspot.com www.theaaa-bomb.blogspot.com

Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filling in for Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC talks to Robert Scheer (author of The Great American Stick Up) about President Obama’s remarks at a fundraiser in hedge fund country where he mocked derivatives reform and suggested he deserved more credit for the passed financial reform bill. www.truthdig.com

Countdown: So-called financial reform bill passes Senate, Dean Baker opines Visit: firedoglake.cvom