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Chris Dodd: “My experience has been over the years, as we have this debate and discussion about what is proprietary trading and how…”

On the recordFebruary 1, 2010
My experience has been over the years, as we have this debate and discussion about what is proprietary trading and how you define it and limit it, that there is probably some 22-year-old sitting in the bowels of some institution that has already figured six ways to get around anything we can write here.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Reflecting on the challenges of regulating proprietary trading effectively.

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