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Fed’s Yellen speaks out against Trump's Wall Street deregulation push

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is defending the post-crisis Wall Street regulations that she and her colleagues have spent so long debating and implementing.

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen doesn’t like to chime in on matters related to Congressional legislation.

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But now that she knows her days as head of the US central bank are probably numbered, she is not proving shy about defending the post-crisis Wall Street regulations that she and her colleagues have spent so long debating and implementing.

US President Donald Trump has vowed to rip up Dodd-Frank financial reforms implemented after the deepest crisis in modern history. He recently cited his friends’ inability to get loans as a key reason for removing the rules.

In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on February 14, Democrats asked Yellen whether US President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans’ claim that the new rules were hurting lending and growth had any merit.

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She was unequivocal, pointing to a survey of small businesses that shows just 4% are having trouble getting credit.

"We lived through a devastating financial crisis. Most members of Congress and the public came away from that experience feeling that it was important to take a set of steps that would result in a safer and stronger financial system," she said. "I feel that we have done that."

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