In Washington they call it being taken to the woodshed. That's what happened when President Barack Obama summoned nine financial regulators to come in for a talk. The president wanted to know what's taking them so long to write the rules needed to make sure the 2008 economic crisis won't be repeated. It's been more than three years since the Dodd-Frank financial reform law passed. Yet less than 40 percent of the law's requirements have been met. One reason is the long list of agencies represented in Obama's office: the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the National Credit Union Administration, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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