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Obama: 'On the brink of passing Wall Street reform'
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
"Despite the last-minute efforts to soften the bill, the Wall Street reform act was shaping up as a tougher-than-expected response to the 2008 financial crisis.
The legislation would create a powerful new consumer financial protection bureau, limit the amount of fees debit-card companies can charge merchants, give the government the power to break up failing financial firms and force transparency of the $600 trillion derivatives market."