In his view, recently the pendulum swung a little too far from regulation and towards a free market and we need to swing a little bit farther back.

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You get a sense that the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction.

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As a result, the pendulum may have swung too far the other way.

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However, perhaps as an over-reaction to such failures, the pendulum swung far too extremely in the direction of a centralized bureaucracy in Washington, DC, where there is no stock exchange, no meaningful business center, and little more than the corrupting influence of lobbyists.

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