Word: grata
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...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 Goolsbee of the Council of Economic Advisers and Jared Bernstein in Vice President Joe Biden's office. Volcker was never really persona non grata; he's friendly with Biden, and Goolsbee says Volcker spoke "extensively and repeatedly" with all the key players - including Obama. Still, White House officials were increasingly frustrated that they weren't getting credit for going after Wall Street. "It came up in every meeting: This bank stuff is killing...