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Barney Frank: “Dodd-Frank... provided oversight to Wall Street, gave regulators the tools to end the era of too-big-to-fail entities.”

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
Dodd-Frank... provided oversight to Wall Street, gave regulators the tools to end the era of too-big-to-fail entities.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Frank highlights the key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act aimed at regulating financial institutions.

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