Ben Bernanke actually said...

If those margin rules for foreign operations are maintained and Europeans and other foreign jurisdictions do not match it, that would be a significant competitive disadvantage.

Context

Bernanke discusses the impact of unaligned margin rules on U.S. banks' competitiveness.

07/20/2011

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