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Obama: U.S. needs return to economic fundamentals

 
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama continued to hammer home a "back-to-basics" economic message Friday, saying that U.S. markets, while fundamentally sound, need a systemic overhaul of financial-sector regulations to ensure a "post-bubble" model of future growth. The president also reiterated his claim that sustainable long-term growth will not be possible without a restructuring of the [...] (link)

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