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by JumpCrisscross 3133 days ago
> Wall Street lobbyists made Democrats nerf it to the point it's almost meaningless

This is wrong. Was Dodd Frank reduced in scope and severity from its first drafting? Yes. Does that amount to watering it down to meaninglessness? No. The bits that stuck have bite. Some bits had, in my opinion, more bite than merit.