In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, lawmakers scrambled to ensure that the mistakes of history would not be easily repeated. The result was a 22,000-page set of regulations called Dodd-Frank, which heavily increased regulatory oversight on the banking system. Eight years later, it is time to roll backRead More

  After every financial crisis, the government examines what went wrong and then tries to instill regulations to prevent such a crisis from occurring again. The two largest moves to regulate the banking industry came after the Great Depression and the Great Recession. The latter crisis resulted in the passageRead More