Today, President Obama is scheduled to outline a set of proposals for reforming the regulation of U.S. financial markets. The goal, of course, is to minimize the odds of another crisis ripping through financial markets.

Channeling the 1773 pre-Revolutionary War protests in Boston, Massachusetts, hundreds of tea party protests have taken place across the United States today in a nationwide backlash against excessive government spending and bailouts. The protests were timed to coincide with tax deadline day.