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Barney Frank: If people don't like the rule, they don't like the rule. But if you look at the implementation... I think the notion…

On the recordJanuary 17, 2012
If people don't like the rule, they don't like the rule. But if you look at the implementation... I think the notion that people are going to be scared away from doing market making because of an excessive rigidity has no real foundation.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Frank defends the rule's implementation and its impact on market making.

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