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Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, talks with Bloomberg's Deirdre Bolton about Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to merge functions of four U.S. bank regulators into a single agency. The legislation creates a Financial Institutions Regulatory Administration that would strip bank supervision powers from the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and eliminate the Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Robert McKinley, chairman of CardWeb.com Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Julie Hyman and Mark Crumpton about the outlook for the U.S. banking industry. Senator Christopher Dodd proposed creating a single U.S. bank regulator and stripping supervision from the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in legislation aimed at preventing a repeat of the credit crisis. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd's proposed legislation creating a single U.S. bank regulator and stripping supervision from the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate on compensation at the Corporate Library, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman and Mark Crumpton about Wall Street bonuses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former China division director at the International Monetary Fund, talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about China's pledge of $10 billion in cheap loans to Africa. Chinese officials have been battling accusations that they are only interested in the continent’s oil and minerals as their country presses forward with a decade-long drive to invest in African resources to feed its growing economy. (Source: Bloomberg)

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein talks with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about the impact of the stimulus program on the jobs market. Jared says stimulus has created or saved 1 million jobs in the U.S. so far. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Austan Goolsbee, a senior White House economic adviser, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about the impact of the Obama administration's stimulus package on the economy. The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, propelled by stimulus-driven gains in consumer spending and home building. (Source: Bloomberg)

Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Christina Romer, chairman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, talks with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua, Jon Erlichman and Adam Johnson about the role of U.S. consumers in third-quarter economic growth. The world’s largest economy expanded at a 3.5 percent pace from July through September, exceeding the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, after shrinking the previous four quarters, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. Household purchases climbed 3.4 percent, the most in more than two years. Source: Bloomberg)

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Timothy Ryan, chief executive officer of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, talks with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker about the need for a new resolution agency to wind down failing financial firms. Ryan also speaks about the outlook for Sifma's guidelines on compensation. (Source: Bloomberg)