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Oct 21 2009, Kevin

President Barack Obama challenged Wall Street to embrace his proposed financial regulations at a New York City fundraiser Tuesday night.

Obama criticized the “reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness...

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