Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

President Barack Obama sternly warned Wall Street Monday against returning to the sort of reckless and unchecked behavior that threatened the nation with a second Great Depression. His agenda includes new rules to protect consumers, higher capital adequacy requirements in the G-20, and increased transparency for complex financial instruments like mortgage-backed securities. "But a key component of the Obama plan - creating an agency to oversee marketing financial products to consumers - faces a tough road to become a law. Industry lobbying against it and other proposed financial rules has been fierce and the president's fellow Democrats have been slow to take up the cause."

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I know I probably sound like a broken record when I rant about how little has changed since last year's meltdown, but there's a reason we get stuck holding the bag when banking fat cats screw up -- it's hard for most people to understand, let alone get worked up about financial regulation. But as long as your congresspeople are hearing ONLY from the bankers, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. Tell them you want legislation to end predatory lending, and increased transparency in derivatives markets. You don't have to give specifics -- just seeing counts of people writing in about these issues can give legislators the leverage they need to do the right thing.

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