Running a little late today. You'd think getting married next week might buy me a little slack, but deadlines are as inflexible as the Internal Revenue Service. So here we are.
Anyway, looks like we get financial reform today. Nearly four months to the day after reforming health care (or health insurance), President Obama signed into law another massive piece of legislation aimed at preventing another financial collapse like the one that began two Septembers ago.
Thing is, best I can tell, most of the same people remain in office, most of the same executives are running things and Wall Street remains as erratic as Lindsay Lohan's Twitter feed.
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I haven't gone through the entire bill (and I'll bet you anything the lawmakers who passed it haven't either), but it reeks of the same stench that made health care reform a reality. But instead of hammering carriers, we've turned our legislative eye on banks. We've traded one black-hat-wearing, mustachioed villain for another. But the victim that's still strapped to the tracks remains the same: the taxpayer.
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