Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

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Austan Goolsbee

...of what would end up being called the Volcker Rule . When we were debating it, it wasn'...
...were debating it, it wasn't called the Volcker Rule , the proprietary trading ban. Like th...
...I want to do it. We're going to add the Volcker Rule and ask [Christopher J.] Dodd an...
...not sixty. So the announcement of the Volcker Rule comes one day after that, an...

Christopher Dodd

...I got a call from the president on the Volcker Rule , which became a very controversia...
...was a minute. But again, not long. “The Volcker Rule , I want the Volcker Rule in the bill....
...not long. “The Volcker Rule, I want the Volcker Rule in the bill.” No one knew quite wha...
...the bill.” No one knew quite what the Volcker Rule was. And to this day that's one of th...
...of here.” [Laughter] And so we got the Volcker Rule in. It was not great, but we got th...

...in. It was not great, but we got the Volcker Rule in the bill. There weren't a lot o...

Valerie Jarrett

...he was right, and so we included the Volcker Rule in the bill. What impact do you thin...