The president seeks to seize control over monetary policy, any business involved with or related to lending and the terms or every loan contract. President Obama’s financial regulation plan keeps all but one of the regulatory agencies that failed to foresee the credit bubble that burst in 2008. The plan expands federal regulation to virtually all consumer and business credit transactions and moves the authority to take emergency actions to preserve the integrity of the financial system from the Federal Reserve Board to the Treasury.

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