Fed To Keep Bank Oversight
The (PRIVATELY-OWNED) Federal Reserve has won its battle to maintain singular regulatory oversight of America's major financial institutions, the Financial Times reported Sunday night.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) gave up the fight for a new super-regulator over the weekend, and will propose financial reforms this week that leave the Fed in control of big banks and the rest of the major Wall Street players
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*U.S. Sales Tax Rates Hit Record High
*Dissenters To Be Detained As “Enemy Belligerents”?
*Greeks Brace for More Strikes, Protests
earlier:
Sarah Palin's family used to "hustle" across the Canadian border to get healthcare, the former Alaska governor said this weekend..
In a speech in Calgary, Palin called it "ironic" that while growing up in a small Alaskan town near the Canadian border, her family used to sneak across the border to take advantage of the Canadian healthcare system.
"We used to hustle over the border for healthcare we received in Canada," she said, according to Medicine Hat News (via Dave Weigel.) "And I think now, isn't that ironic."
It's ironic, of course, because Palin and other Republicans have argued that Democratic healthcare reform will put the U.S. on the path toward Canada's "socialized" healthcare system.
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*Nigeria ethnic violence 'leaves hundreds dead'
*Dozens killed in Turkey earthquake
*Idea About A European Monetary Fund Gains Ground In Brussels
*Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists
*Al Qaeda mouthpiece Adam Gadahn NOT in custody
*Shooting at Dallas bank
*Rep. Massa Blames White House For Ousting Him From His Seat
*Israel 'risking peace talks' with West Bank building
*Iraq vote turnout figures released
Over The Weekend:
*Obama Plan To Modify Second Mortgages Has Yet To Help One Homeowner
*Unemployment For Older Americans Surged 331 Percent Over Past Decade
*Insurers Set To Raise Prices, Walk Away From Consumers
*Latino livery taxis battle cabbies in central Mass
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