President Obama is closing out 2014 with one hell of a bang

If President Barack Obama’s year ended in November, it would have been one of the worst of his presidency. Good thing he had the past five weeks.

+ Matt Yglesias explains: "On Nov. 26, the Obama administration put forward new anti-smog regulations that should prevent thousands of premature deaths and heart attacks every year. About curbing reckless borrowing by giant banks that will reduce profits and shareholder earnings but increase the safety of the financial system. Yet both of these were minor stories compared to normalizing relations with Cuba after decades and his sweeping plan to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation."

Politico: "Obama feels liberated, aides say, and sees the recent flurry of aggressive executive action and deal-making as a pivot for him to spend his final two years in office being more the president he always wanted to be."
two weeks later, Obama's appointees at the Federal Reserve implemented new rules 

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