(L t R) Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, Paul Volcker, chairman of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and Penny Pritzker, chairman of Pritzker Realty Group, listen to empty Obama rhetoric speak about financial reform at Cooper Union in New York on April 22nd, 2010. Obama called on the financial industry to drop efforts to fight his regulation plan, saying a failure to impose tougher rules on the market will put the U.S. economic system at risk. |
