The Financial Crisis Made Barney Frank's Career
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Jan. 3, 2013: Barney Frank retires from Congress
Barney Frank, who co-wrote the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the Moby-Dick of financial regulation, retired from Congress this year on Jan. 3. One of his first acts as a private citizen, on Jan. 5, was to kick off a weekend-long public reading of the real Moby-Dick at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, starting from “Call me Ishmael.” The man who tried to harpoon the leviathan of the banking system undoubtedly identified with Captain Ahab.