The S.E.C.'s proposal "targets precisely the funds that ran the most in 2008," said Norm Champ, director of the S.E.C. division of investment management, in an interview.
Rudd's hold on power was further threatened by strident opposition from business groups to the controversial Resource Super Profits Tax, a proposal targeted at the mining industry and scheduled to go into effect in 2012.
This form of delivery system proposal targeted the delivery of vital combinations to the body.
It is a proposal targeted at ensuring that countries such as Italy and Spain do not face unsustainably high borrowing costs as a result of fears they might end up leaving the euro.
He even released a new tax proposal targeted at small businesses.
The proposal targets loans funded and owned by the Education Department through the Direct Loan program, as well as government-guaranteed debt owned by the government and the private sector under the Federal Family Education Loan program.
While more narrowly focused on inequality as the problem, this speech did introduce - or reintroduce - some of the issues he's likely to promote in his state of the union address early next year: stalled proposals targeting workplace discrimination, tax reform, immigration reform, universal early childhood education, a hike in the minimum wage, and preservation of the Affordable Care Act.
Stoked by a heated U.S. election cycle and ailing economy, some insiders predict the China penalty bills will pass at least the House and possibly the Senate... Proposals targeting China's currency policy have bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, and lawmakers plan to turn up the heat on the issue at a series of hearings this month.
People who agree with proposals targeting U.S. Muslims are more reluctant to directly condone singling them out.
As a final note, just as I was writing this piece yesterday, the President, to his further credit, put forward three additional proposals targeting the highest earners, all greatly overdue and thus all greatly welcome.
In the aftermath of last week's terrorist attacks on Brussels, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that Americans are receptive to proposals targeting Muslims, even as they acknowledge a tide of rising anti-Islamic sentiment.
