House Republican attempts to blunt Dodd-Frank's regulatory requirements on derivatives would remove transparency and "allow these prices to continue to be secret," Rep. Barney Frank told CNBC Thursday.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned Thursday of an "effort to slow and weaken reforms that are critical to our ability to protect Americans from another crisis."
Several of the major Republican presidential nominees have chosen to run, in a sense, against the Federal Reserve, picking a fight over the powers of the institution and the policies of its chairman.