House and Senate negotiators have finally come to an agreement as to how to merge the House and Senate financial reform bills. Consumers will be pleased to learn that some new restrictions will be in place on banks and how they can use investors' money, and Wall Street will be pleased to learn that consumers can't understand all the ways the banks can still screw them over.
World leaders gather in Canada this weekend for the G-8 and G-20 Summits. Organizers proposed combining the two to create a G-28 Summit, although mathematicians insisted that it would technically become the 2G-28 Summit.
And in news news, BP is sending PR professionals to the Gulf Coast states to pretend to be journalists, a move that will surely rile the folks at Fox News who have been pretending to be journalists since 1996.
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