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Obama Picks a Fight with the Big Banks
Former chair of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volker, is gaining clout with the Obama Administration, pushing a crackdown on Wall Street. Meantime the current chair, Ben Bernanke , may not have the votes to be reconfirmed when his term runs out in a little over a week. David Cho reports for the Washington Post .
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readFormer chair of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volker, is gaining clout with the Obama Administration, pushing a crackdown on Wall Street. Meantime the current chair, Ben Bernanke, may not have the votes to be reconfirmed when his term runs out in a little over a week. David Cho reports for the Washington Post.
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