The theme of last night’s State of the Union was “an economy built to last.” Vowing to protect the middle class and correct economic inequality, President Obama laid out his plans for financial reform: regulating home prices, penalizing banks that participated in the housing crash, imposing the “Buffet rule,” and tightening regulations on private equity and Wall Street. Joe Nocera is an op-ed columnist for our partner The New York Times.
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