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Financial reform

	Fed faces intense criticism over bank rule Banks are seeing red over the proposed regulations. Why do they hate the Volcker rule? Higher banking fees on the horizon Financial regulation lags after Dodd-Frank Dodd-Frank: financial regulation in neutral

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