CostRefuge Weekly Roundup

Each week, WalletPop looks back on the week's top personal finance stories as it joins with CostRefuge. Here are some of those stories from last week:

Congress passed financial reform legislation intended to help benefit consumers & bring down the power of some of the nation's largest financial institutions. But does the bill do what it was intended or won't it make a difference? Ron Lieber & Tara Siegel Bernard of The New York Timesbreak down the winners & losers and what's expected to come about for consumers as a result of the bill's passing.