His administration is proposing rules for the $592 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market and standards aligning bank executives’ pay with long-term performance.

This is from the article cited in OP. Can anybody explain to me what these new rules are? I don't mean standards for pay but the new rules about derivatives?

As long as these derivatives, often toxic, are embedded in this system, the rise of the stock market is fake. the market is full of swiss cheese holes that can collapse it at any time. I don't understand why obama and dems insist that we the problem is health care and carbon emissions when we have a toxic situation that needs to be dealt with.

What load of candyland boardgame crap this is...if they were serious at all, they would have started already weaning off of fossil fuels..they arnt going to let it happen, especially since thiers lobbyists! Ever see who killed the electric car? It shows george bush junior talking with some guy, abuot how the hydrogen car was the way of the future, how it makes sense balh balh..that was 8+years ago, near a decade! Some guy on that documentary, was talking how he built an electric car, got 3,400 miles before needing to be re charged..talked to governemnt about it with the blueprints, and they werent interested. Its just a dream and dead idea so they can keep ripping us all off at the pump. Ethanol was not the answer..jsut an excuse to casue infaltion on food, breaking the middle class down. Ethanol is connected to milk, for the record. Thats why milk has spiked in prce over the past 7 years.
A potential anwer was right in their face, an electric car that was 98% pollution free! OF course, car stores, dealerships, mechanics would be put out of work, unless retrained. The car was only something like $5,000! Not much of a money maker, no..but a green car? absolutly! it ran on a battery and a microchip. Its exhaust waste, was water basically.