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2010-06-25       The Daily Brief     Les Leopold: Why the Wall Street-BP Double Standard? AP Les Leopold: The captains of high finance are demanding that we reduce public debt, which we ran up to bail them out and deal with the mass unemployment they caused. That takes a lot of nerve. First they crash the system and run away with a fat pocket of cash. Then they demand that we clean up our financial act or they won't loan out any money. Next time an oil-blackened snowy egret gets you furious at BP, remember to save some righteous indignation for the financial polluters who are picking our pockets. Click here to read more. Sen. Dick Lugar: Keeping America Connected: End the Static at the Broadcasting Board Our ability to respond to fast-moving changes in the global technological and demographic environment is hampered by chronic functional problems with the organization in charge, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). Cenk Uygur: Lincoln Amendment or Bust If the Lincoln derivatives amendment passes at least we and the economy have a fighting chance. Without it, the financial reform bill is a joke meant to placate us until the next collapse. Mayhill Fowler: Seduction and Betrayal: McChrystal and the Misapprehension of Journalism Journalism is an act of seduction. Many times I've done the seducing, in writing big stories and small; I've also been the seduced, slammed with the gut-wrenching morning-after upon reading stories written about me. Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: The Spiritual Significance of Pride Sin -- defined as turning our backs on who God has created us to be -- can also take the opposite form of inordinate self-hate or shame, something that many LGBT people experience from a very early age. Dr. Pamela Peeke: Swat Team to Aisle Three Please Some public health advocates have singled out sugar as the primary cause of obesity and pointed an accusatory finger at sugar-sweetened beverages as the chief culprit for everyone being so fat. But is this singular focus misguided?     HuffPost News Financial Reform Bill Passes: Banks Keep Derivatives Units, Volcker Rules Softened; House-Senate Conference Passes Financial Reform Bill After Marathon Session Arizona Immigration Law Sending Shock Waves Across Political Spectrum, 2010 Midterm Elections Vatican Moves To Block Questioning Of Pope In Abuse Lawsuit Gulf Oil Spill: Army Of Robot Subs Working To Contain Leak Kylie & Kendall Jenner, Kardashian Sisters, Pose At 'Eclipse' Premiere (PHOTO)   Get HuffPost on your iPhone!   ©2010 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 560 Broadway, Suite 308, NY, NY 10012 Add dailybrief@huffingtonpost.com to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. User Agreement Privacy Policy

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Lawmakers reached a final deal on a Wall Street reform bill early Friday morning after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) agreed to a compromise with House Democrats on her derivatives regulation bill – clearing the way for the broadest rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations since the Great Depression. The legislation would create a powerful new consumer financial protection bureau, limit the fees debit-card companies can charge merchants, give the government the power to break up failing financial firms and force transparency of the massive derivatives market.