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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., left, talks with former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 15, 2010, after Congress passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner delivers remarks during a news conference at the Treasury Department, Thursday, July 15, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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** FILE ** In this Feb. 9, 2010 file photo, a customer reads a Nook electronic reader at a Barnes & Noble book store in Hackensack, N.J. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

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In this photo taken Wednesday July 7, 2010, a worker labors at a steel plant in Hefei in central China's Anhui province. China's rapid growth is slowing as the impact of its massive stimulus eases and Beijing clamps down on a credit boom. The world's third-largest economy expanded by 10.3 percent in the second quarter over a year earlier, down from the first quarter's explosive 11.9 percent growth, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo)

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Hellenic Postbank's employees gather outside the bank's headquarters in central Athens, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Greece's private Piraeus Bank on Thursday said it is offering to buy stakes in state-controlled ATEbank and Hellenic Postbank from the government for 701 million euro ($890.5 million). CEO Michalis Sallas says the bank is bidding to acquire 77.3 percent of ATEBank and 33 percent of Postbank. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate banking committee member Bob Corker says the new consumer agency has "absolutely nothing - zero - to do with the financial crisis."

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Xu Xiaoqi (second from left) protests Wednesday outside a government office building in Beijing in support of victims of forced evictions. (Courtesy of Xu Xiaoqi)

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Sun Bae sells a chance for riches to Frank Gutierrez at the Times Market, where Bishop, Texas, native Joan Ginther bought two of her winning lottery tickets. (Associated Press)

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says deep-water drilling must be suspended until investigators can determine a cause for the April 20 explosion that led to millions of barrels of oil being released into the Gulf of Mexico, a problem that is ongoing. (Associated Press)

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The widely known nonprofit organization YMCA announced a major brand transformation Monday, adopting a more "forward-looking" logo called "The Y."

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Hans Hass, founder and CEO of Elevation Burger, is seen outside Elevation Burger in Potomac, Md., Wednesday, June 23, 2010. With a drive-through seemingly on every corner, you might think the market for burgers long ago reached saturation. But the fastest-growing restaurant chain in America last year was Five Guys, which specializes in double-pattied behemoths the size of a softball. Elevation Burger is expanding into Kuwait. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Playboy Enterprises Inc. said Monday, July 12, 2010, that its iconic founder, Hugh Heffner, is offering to buy the remaining shares of the media empire, taking the company private, in a deal that values the company at $185 million.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

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Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis arrives at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in San Diego County, Calif. (Associated Press/File)

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In this photo taken June 8, 2010, a home that sold in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., is shown. Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac says the average rate rose to 4.75 percent, up from 4.72 percent last week. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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President Obama, right, with Boeing President, Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney, Jr., center, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, left, speaks about exports, jobs, and the economy, Wednesday, July 7, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama, right, with Boeing President, Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney, Jr., center, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, left, speaks about exports, jobs and the economy on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama stands with Boeing President, Chairman and CEO Jim McNerney, Jr., right, and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, as he speaks about exports, jobs and the economy on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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