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Levitt-ating above politics: SEC chairman uses his political prowess to champion small individual investors. (Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt)
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Crain's New York Business
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May 27, 1996
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SEC chairman uses his political prowess to champion small individual investors
Last fall, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt was on the hot seat. Members of Congress lambasted his aggressive anti-fraud policies in municipal bond sales and threatened to cut his budget.
Worse, Wall Street had taken its ideas for stripping away government regulations directly to the new Republican Congress, bypassing the usual courtesy stop at the SEC.
Somehow Mr. Levitt, the 25th chairman of the SEC, has emerged from the political storm unscathed - more proof that the native New Yorker is, in fact, the consummate consensus builder and political pro with a great sense ...
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