Small banks, and the politicians who speak for them in Congress, take the opposite view: that Basel 2 will benefit big banks at their expense.

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Ironically, the best answer is probably to take a view that is the polar opposite.

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Over the weekend, the Senate committee, led by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, released internal Goldman emails that suggest the company was positioning itself to take advantage of a market drop even though it was packaging securities and selling them to clients who had the opposite view.

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