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A year after the near-collapse of global financial markets, participants in the G-20 meetings in Pittsburgh were still grasping for effective ways to prevent future economic meltdowns. President Obama is pushing for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency that would review proposed financial instruments to prevent abuses, an idea opposed by bankers. Others want to impose higher capital requirements on financial institutions to guard against overlending, as well as give governments more power to break up ailing global giants like AIG. What's your view?
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