If any publicity is good publicity, the Dodd-Frank Act got a healthy shot in the arm from the two candidates for U.S. president during their first debate on Wednesday, with each contender discussing financial regulation at length.
“You have to have regulation, and there are some parts of Dodd-Frank that make all the sense in the world,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said. “You have to have transparency, leverage limits.”
But Romney was mostly critical of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street....