White House
| April 16th, 2010 | Remarks by the President at a Meeting with the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Below is the offiical remarks published by the White House. This includes President Obama's remarks that he will "veto legislation that does not bring the derivatives market under control and some sort of regulatory framework that assures that we don’t have the same kind of crises that we’ve seen in the past." THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. All right -- don’t break anything. (Laughter.) You guys all set? All right. |
| January 21st, 2010 | President Obama Calls for New Restrictions on Size and Scope of Financial Institutions to Rein in Excesses and Protect Taxpayers President Obama joined Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve; Bill Donaldson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Congressman Barney Frank, House Financial Services chairman; Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee and the President's economic team to call for new restrictions on the size and scope of banks and other financial institutions to rein in excessive risk taking and to protect ta |
