ONE YEAR LATER: After Dodd-Frank Financial Reform, Do the Banks Still Run the Place?

Submitted by John Papagiannis on Jul 20, 2011

This Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,” legislation passed by Congress to rein in the banks and protect consumers from the practices that led to the economic collapse. Since it’s passage, Wall Street interests have continued to exert influence over Congress in efforts to weaken, repeal, or as one bank lobbyist said recently, “reform the reform.”

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