Virtually everyone in Washington who regulates or lobbies for the banking industry has been invited to speak, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

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It will also build upon a regulatory blueprint policymakers, including Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, issued in March.

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This nutty professor is apparently read and taken seriously by half the policymakers in Washington, including Treasury Secretary Larry Summers--and don't you love the Summers dollar?

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