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Dodd-Frank Week: AAF Assesses the Consequences, 10 Years Later

To mark the 10-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, AAF experts have assessed the economic and regulatory impact of the law in a series of articles and videos that will be released this week.

Today 

  • A Decade of Dodd-Frank: A Dodd-Frank Primer  AAF’s Director of Financial Services Policy Thomas Wade sets out the basis of this controversial and complex rulemaking and outlines the contents of each title of the Act.

Tuesday

  • “Three Truths About Dodd-Frank”  In an op-ed in The Hill, AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin examines the successes, failings, and current state of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

Wednesday

  • “The Dodd-Frank Act: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” — In this video, Wade assesses the impact and fortunes of the more controversial of Dodd-Frank’s many provisions.

Thursday

  • “The Future of Dodd-Frank” — Wade considers the future of Dodd-Frank and what factors could lead to dramatic changes, or even make the law obsolete.

Friday

  • “The Dodd-Frank Act: Three Key Numbers” — In this video, AAF’s Director of Regulatory Policy Dan Bosch points out three key numbers describing the law’s regulatory implications.

View the series.

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