Nicole Gelinas

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  Who Can Reform Wall Street: Romney or Obama?

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  August 23, 2012

  The political calculus is that Romney has a good chance in November because the economy is bad, and Obama is the guy who was supposed to make it better. Not so fast.

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  Unfinished Business: Dodd-Frank’s Many Questions

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  June 27, 2012

  On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, known as Dodd-Frank, into law. Two years on, uncertainty abounds about the legislation’s meaning and impact.

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  Does Anyone Have a Real Economic Plan?

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  July 26, 2011

  Going into next year’s election, President Obama is in a heap of trouble over the economy. Some evidence: in June, only 29 percent of the people who participated in a Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll thought the country was “headed in the right direction.”

• Europe's Debt Crisis -- And Ours

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  August 1, 2010

  Europe nominally has a public debt crisis. But the Continent's real crisis is of central political and social planning, done not through overt decree but...