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...proved incapable of withstanding the rise of inflation and global competition--not to mention deregulation proponents--in the 1970s. Since then, the priority among regulators and politicians has been to try to manage risk but to by all means avoid thwarting innovation. "I do not believe that government should stand in the way of innovation or turn back the clock to an older era of regulation" is how Obama put it in his big speech on the subject...
...Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren's year-old proposal--which Hillary Clinton has recently begun talking up on the campaign trail--for a Financial Product Safety Commission. It would be modeled on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which keeps exploding toasters off the market. Such a body might stand in the way of financial innovation. But for consumers, that wouldn't necessarily be such a bad thing...
...nights during college working on this project with the intention being that—as opposed to bands that play around for several years and build a local following and tour a lot—that we would just have an album that was good enough to stand on its own,” he says...
...most immediately gratifying song, integrates droning voices and mellow strings into an uplifting dance track about taking initiative. “Though there are other unknowns, somehow this doesn’t concern me,” Cee-Lo preaches, “and you can stand right there if you want, but I’m going on.” Having outgrown “The Grey Album” and broadened his repertoire to many areas of rock and pop, Danger Mouse has incorporated a variety of his past experiences into this album. The vocal effects...
...this campaign, we will not stand for the politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon," he said on the night that he lost Ohio and Texas. But then he added, "I owe what I am to this country, this country that I love, and I will never forget it." That has been the implicit patriotism of the Obama candidacy: only in America could a product of Kenya and Kansas seek the presidency. It is part of what has proved so thrilling to his young followers, who chanted, "U-S-A, U-S-A," the night...