Over several decades the prevailing position of the US establishment towards Wall Street was one of steady deregulation and “hands-off cheering”. The Dodd-Frank Bill, which became the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on July 21 2010, changed all that. It marked a clear turning point by placing vigorous reliance on government to protect the “little guy”, as Paul Krugman would put it, against the unavoidable onslaught of complex technology-driven markets.

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