Wall Street's Straight Man In Washington

Wall Street's Straight Man In Washington

On Oct. 15 the leading lights of the House Financial Services Committee, Republican and Democrat, arrived in Bern, Switzerland, for a gathering hosted by the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Suzi LeVine. It was the final leg of a three-country congressional delegation, or Codel, led by the committee’s Republican chairman, Jeb Hensarling of Texas, that had already traveled through Germany and England. Officially, the trip was a “fact-finding mission” to study global banking networks and bilateral trade. In reality, it was a luxury European vacation.

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