Wall Street Gets Close to Stiffing Overhaul: Roger Lowenstein
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Backroom trading in Congress has put meaningful financial overhaul in jeopardy at the 11th hour.
In two key aspects of the legislation, the Senate has refused to go along with the House version, undermining leverage limits on big, risky financial firms in the first instance and driving a knife through shareholder democracy in the second.