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...fact, Democrats in Washington and even within the Administration were at odds over dozens of provisions. As with health care, there are serious differences on financial reform between the House and the Senate, and the Democratic caucus within the Senate is again divided. And as the House bill got watered down a bit, some reformers saw Treasury's fingerprints. For example, Michael Greenberger, a policy adviser to Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of union, consumer and environmental groups, says Treasury lobbied "vigorously" for loopholes exempting certain over-the-counter derivatives from new regulations, a key objective of centrist...
...Republicans say they haven't seen any downside yet to opposing reform. Brown actually stepped into Obama's populist trap by opposing the bank tax, and it didn't seem to help his opponent, Martha Coakley, even though internal polling gave her a 21-point advantage when it came to "taking on Wall Street." Why? "People thought Democrats in Washington would not deliver on these issues," says her pollster, Celinda Lake...
...Read "Bank CEOs Continue to Fight Financial Reform...
...conspicuously not the case with health care reform, the Administration has laid out specific changes it wants to see in financial oversight. In June, Geithner released an 88-page paper with proposals to address just about everything that went wrong before the meltdown, from unregulated brokers who peddled toxic subprime mortgages with brutal fine print to in-the-tank ratings agencies that vouched for house-of-cards financial instruments they didn't even understand. He proposed much tougher oversight of derivatives, hedge funds and nonbank financial firms like AIG, as well as so-called resolution authority to help public officials...
...question is: Does the new populism make reform more or less likely...