Crisis revives words of '29 crash's sleuth
Posted: September 20, 2009 at 4:18 a.m.
President Barack Obama reminded Wall Street last week that he intends to impose "common sense" regulations. The last time Washington enacted a sweeping set of financial reforms, more than 75 years ago, the catalyst was a cigar-smoking, Sicilian-born immigrant named Ferdinand Pecora.
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