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Could Financial Reform Curb Wall Street? (Audio)

Will the financial reform plan that’s currently on the table prevent another economic crisis? On the next Your Call, we’ll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at financial reform. Will it fundamentally change the way Wall Street operates? Will it end bank bailouts? What laws do you think should be put in place to protect citizens? Is it even possible to get a good bill with Wall Street and Washington so closely aligned? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Will the financial reform plan that’s currently on the table prevent another economic crisis? On the next Your Call, we’ll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at financial reform. Will it fundamentally change the way Wall Street operates? Will it end bank bailouts? What laws do you think should be put in place to protect citizens? Is it even possible to get a good bill with Wall Street and Washington so closely aligned? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

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Guests:

  • Kevin Hall – National Economics Correspondent for McClatchy newspapers
  • Rob Johnson – Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute
  • Mary Bottari – Director of the Center for Media and Democracy’s Real Economy Project and editor of the www.BanksterUSA.org site for bank-busting activists

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