Outgoing SEC Commissioner Gallagher Takes One Last Shot at Dodd-Frank
In what was likely his last formal speech as an SEC commissioner, Commissioner Dan Gallagher invoked into his inner Stuart Smalley to take aim one last time at his favorite target, the Dodd-Frank Act.
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