Criticisms of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law on July 21, 2010. The bill brought significant changes to financial regulation in the United States, a er the stock market crisis just a few years earlier. Those changes were among the most significant since Congress responded to the Great Depression in the 1930s. But reform under Dodd-Frank has not worked as planned or promised.