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sendero

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8. Did he push ...

Reply to unblock (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 27, 2012, 06:54 AM

Jul 2012

... for a return of Glass Stegall?

I don't think so.

The bottom line is simple. If you had G-S you could throw away Dodd Frank and every other bit of crazy quilt legislation designed to make the banks act right. As long as bankers can gamble with govt backed money they will find a way, period.

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i forget, of gramm, leach, and bliley, which one was barney frank? unblock Jul 2012 #6

Did he push ... sendero Jul 2012 #8

like i said, glass-stegall had largely been gutted by then. unblock Jul 2012 #10

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She went round and round with Eliot Spitzer a couple weeks ago. moondust Jul 2012 #9