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Even the SEC's new chairman, Mary L. Schapiro, in a recent speech said she wants to improve the SEC's "handling of tips and whistleblower complaints," though an SEC spokesman said it has no plans in the works...
...nation's ailing banks. Indeed, representatives of the American Bankers Association and the Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association, which lobby for large banks and Wall Street firms, respectively, say they have yet to have sit-downs with Geithner. A number of industry insiders say Geithner's early-February policy speech, which got a poor reception, would have gone better and had more detail if he'd had more meetings with financial executives. Geithner, though, didn't want it to seem as if Wall Street was getting the chance to write its own blank check. (See pictures of TIME's Wall...
...Obama paid no heed to this speech, colliding with great force against the door of the vehicle, which suffered no injury at all compared to him who had intended to give it. Sancha Clinton hurried down the slope to set her master aright and listened as he spoke...
...Tuesday night, Barack Obama will get a chance to follow in those footsteps. For weeks, the President's staff has been writing and revising his speech, which is likely to be the most comprehensive statement of Obama's vision for the nation since the Inauguration. So what will he say? (See pictures of how Obama prepared his Inauguration speech...
...Officially, the White House is keeping the speech under wraps, with spokesman Robert Gibbs saying repeatedly that he is not going to "get ahead" of the President. But there is, in many ways, little left to hide, since Obama has spent much of the past few weeks making clear both his legislative goals and his strategy for accomplishing them. So as you settle in tonight to watch the prolonged legislative applause, realizing that, like 25 million Americans, you will be denied your Tuesday night American Idol fix, here are five things to look...