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March 08, 2012

The Economist | The Dodd-Frank act: Too big not to fail

The Economist
The Dodd-Frank act
Flaws in the confused, bloated law passed in the aftermath of America's financial crisis become ever more apparent

NEW YORK

SECTIONS 404 and 406 of the Dodd-Frank law of July 2010 add up to just a couple of pages. On October 31st last year two of the agencies overseeing America's financial system turned those few pages into a form to be filled out by hedge funds and some other firms; that form ran to 192 pages. The cost of filling it out, according to an informal survey of hedge-fund managers, will be $100,000-150,000 for each firm the first time it does it. After having done it once, those costs might drop to $40,000 in every later year.

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