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Should Dodd-Frank Be Renamed the 'Rube Goldberg' Statute?

Why now, just when business activity is starting to pick up, and just when the interest rate on your loan is starting to creep up, is your bank inquiring if you are a financial entity that is highly leveraged?

25 minute read July 26, 2013 at 04:50 PM
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Beth Stern Fleming and Timothy Demers
Should Dodd-Frank Be Renamed the 'Rube Goldberg' Statute?

You've been comfortably existing as a privately held commercial leasing company for years. You routinely cover your interest-rate exposure on your funding debt by entering into interest-rate swaps in modest amounts.

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