Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Washington Post

News Alert
9:08 PM EDT Tuesday, June 16, 2009
White House Details Overhaul of Financial Oversight
The Washington Post has obtained a near-final copy of the Obama administration's 85-page "white paper" detailing proposed changes to the country's system of regulating financial markets. These include measures that would involve the government much more deeply in the private market, from helping to steer consumers into affordable mortgage loans to imposing new limits on the largest financial companies, in a sweeping effort to prevent the kinds of risk-taking that produced the economic crisis.

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News Alert
6:32 PM EDT Tuesday, June 16, 2009
House Approves $106B Supplemental War Spending Bill
Legislation will fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan over coming months.

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