How did the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act seek to regulate the banking industry?

What will be an ideal response?

It established a consumer protection agency, put in place some banking reform, and increased federal oversight and control over derivatives trading, the financial instrument that allowed mortgage speculation and that brought down financial institutions such as insurance giant American International Group (AIG).

Political Science

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Since 1990, the Congress has tried and failed several times to pass a Constitutional Amendment?that would do which of the following?

a. Make belief in Communism a federal offense  b. Ban the importation of obscene literature  c. Prohibit the criticism of elected officials 

Political Science

The classical model of memory is a good example of

A) a genetic model. B) a behavioral structure. C) an abstract model. D) both A and C.

Political Science