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Kristen L. Eastlick is a Senior Economic Analyst at the Employment Policies Institute in Washington, D.C.
It's also no coincidence that the President made his announcement while standing next to the unlikeliest populist advocate for financial reform, 82-year-old former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, a previously marginalized Obama adviser who had chastised the Administration for making insufficient efforts to limit the size and...
Back in Vogue Volcker was living in New York City, getting engaged to his longtime assistant, giving speeches around the world, making wry comments about the uselessness of financial innovation and the remorselessness of Wall Street. He was also making cagey references to his lack of influence with Obama, for...
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In fact, while Volcker did have some policy disagreements with Geithner and National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers - who were not eager to dismantle large banks and did not see how proprietary trading contributed to the crisis - those ideas had support from White House economists like Christina Romer and Austan...