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Bruce Stokes covers international economics for National Journal. His awards include the John Hancock award for excellence in business and economics reporting. Stokes is the co-author of America Against the World and author of A New Beginning: Recasting the U.S.-Japan Economic Relationship. A former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stokes is currently a journalism fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a consultant to the Pew Research Center. In 2004, he was chosen by International Economy magazine as one of the most influential China watchers in the American press. Stokes graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has a master's degree from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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June 17, 2009 06:34 PM

RE: Will Obama's New Regulatory Package Work?

        Conservatives are already fretting that President Obama’s concerns will lead to “socialist” interference in the financial free market. Their complaints can be dismissed for what they are: the desperate rhetoric of the proponents of a laissez-faire ideology that has now been discredited by its excesses.            But Wall Street is also issuing ominous warnings that over regulation of banks, hedge funds and investment houses will cripple the economy’s recovery. Needless inhibition of financial innovation, the argument goes, could kill the goose that might one day again lay more golden eggs.         Such worries are transparently self-interested and, more…  Read more
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