How Dodd-Frank Damaged Community Banks and Hurt Small Business

On May 4, 2016, Peter Wallison spoke at the second of Center of the American Experiment’s quarterly 2016 lunch forums. His topic was “How Dodd-Frank Damaged Community Banks and Hurt Small Businesses.” Peter Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in research relating to banking, insurance, and securities regulation. A former general counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, Mr. Wallison is the author of Hiding In Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again. Congressman Tom Emmer, who has sponsored legislation that would rein in Dodd-Frank, also appeared and spoke about the unintended consequences of that law.

A full transcript of the forum can be viewed here.