The pendulum swings.

It swung in the direction of super-tight regulation of the nation’s banks during, and immediately after, the financial crisis of 2008. And now it is swinging in the opposite direction. President Trump and congressional Republicans, along with a handful of Democrats, have pushed through legislation that will ease the regulatory burdens imposed on some banks by the so-called Volcker Rule.

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