x YouTube Video WARREN: The financial crisis wasn’t an unstoppable act of nature.The whole thing could have been avoided, but we didn’t have the rules in place to stop Wall Street from taking enormous risks that threatened the economy. We didn’t have strong protections to keep consumers from being cheated by tricks and traps on financial contracts. POTUS: So when I took office in the darkest days of the crisis, I promised you we wouldn’t just recover from crisis – we’d rebuild our economy on a new foundation to make sure a crisis like that never happens again. The weekly address this morning focused on Wall Street reform as President Obama was joined by Sen.