Obama’s Wall Street speech
Marco Werman gets reaction to President Obama’s speech on Wall Street from the BBC’s economics and business correspondent, Andrew Walker. The president’s speech marked a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which signalled the start of the global financial crisis.
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