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The Holes in Obama's Wall Street Plan

The president unveiled his plan to regulate the financial industry on Wednesday, a blueprint full of lots of a good individual ideas. But, William D. Cohan says, it completely misses the consistent thread that prompted the economic collapse: Wall Street's lack of accountability in the way it rewards itself.

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