{"id":4153,"date":"2010-01-22T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:41:55","slug":"volkers-return-to-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/01\/22\/volkers-return-to-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Volker&#8217;s return to influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4155\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/01\/Volker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"USA\/\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Paul Volker appears to be <a title=\"regaining influence\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/21\/AR2010012104935.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">regaining influence <\/a>in Washington as President Obama enbraces the former Federal Reserve chairman&#8217;s plan to keep banks from engaging in risky investment speculation.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Cornelius Hurley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/banking\/hurley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius Hurley<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/morincenter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law<\/a> and a former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, says it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Obama\u2019s listening to Paul Volcker is long overdue.\u00a0 This is a hopeful sign of sounder proposals to come from the Administration on financial and economic matters.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Cornelius Hurley, 617-353-5427, <a href=\"mailto:ckhurley@bu.edu\">ckhurley@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Volker appears to be regaining influence in Washington as President Obama enbraces the former Federal Reserve chairman&#8217;s plan to keep banks from engaging in risky investment speculation.\u00a0 Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and a former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, says it&#8217;s about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[113,101,1236,2417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/8196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}