A few weeks ago Dodd's Senate banking committee held hearings on the need for regulation of the financial industry. Present were 10 regulators each from one of 10 different regulatory bodies. Dodd commented: "the picture of 10 people was the picture of the problem."

So it seems that we have too many regulators, none of whom were able to individually or collectively deal with the recent financial debacle. Now lawmakers are trying to figure out what to do and how to do it. Obviously there will be fierce power struggles among the existing agencies. Hal Scott, professor at Harvard University said: "its grown topsy turvy since the civil war driven by a reaction of events -- the turf was where industry always wants its own regulator that they can be more comfortable with."

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