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This photo combo shows Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen, left, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Summers is the White House insider with a direct line to President Barack Obama. Yellen is the Federal Reserve veteran with a long list of congressional patrons. The two Ivy League trained economists have emerged as leading contenders to replace Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Fed, the nation’s central bank. Obama could announce his nominee in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, J. Scott Applewhite)
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Weighing Yellen vs. Summers for Federal Reserve

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Financial regulators are revisiting one of the key Dodd-Frank regulations pertaining to mortgages, two years after industry and consumer groups warned that the original proposal would raise borrowing costs for homeowners. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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Regulators look for do-over on Dodd-Frank mortgage regulation

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Darryl Layne Woods, the former chairman and chief financial officer of Mainstreet Bank in Ashland, Mo., used $381,487 in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to buy himself a luxury vacation condo in Southwest Florida. (Thinkstock)

Bank official stole government money? Not surprised

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Absent bailouts, the market can regulate banks
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Absent bailouts, the market can regulate banks

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation evolved from protecting depositors to protecting big banks. (AP File)
Beltway Confidential

Megabanks are a creature of government, not of unbridled capitalism

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HHS: Small Businesses May Keep Current Health Plans in 2014, But Will Lose Tax Credit

HHS: Small Businesses May Keep Current Health Plans in 2014, But Will Lose Tax Credit

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Big banks are both the result and the cause of big government. (AP File)
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Breaking up the big banks, libertarian style

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Study: US has $70.1 trillion in off-balance sheet debt

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Republicans, Democrats agree Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should go — but what’s next?
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Republicans, Democrats agree Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should go — but what’s next?

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The House Financial Services Committee approved a draft bill that would wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Wednesday morning, staking out an aggressive position in favor of reducing the government’s role in the nation’s housing finance system. (Photo: Thinkstock)
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House panel approves GOP bill to end Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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