The Political Page, T+15 -- The Ides of March

Not enough arrows in her quiver?

Warren: 1, Pocahontas: 0.

The US Senate overwhelmingly, 67 - 31, passed a partial roll-back of Dodd-Frank. Huge bipartisan support; even Dems hate Dodd-Frank.

Pocahontas: "I don't see how any senator can vote for Wall Street deregualation.

Re-posting:

Under the radar/connecting the dots:

• roll-back of Dodd-Frank; big win for big banks
• Buffett buys Bnnk of New York Mellon
• Buffett's largest holding: AAPL
• Apple, Inc, hires Bank of New York Mellon to protect its cash assets in Ireland
• Buffett buys BK back in September, 2017; Congress starts rolling back Dodd-Frank in early 2018
• Buffett really, really smart? was this the reason he Wells Fargo -- knowing that Dodd-Frank was going to be rolled back
• Buffett's hand in lobbying Congress on this one?
• Buffett just lucky?

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Passion On The Potomac 

Season two has barely begun. In the first episode, Rex Tillerson was fired.

Now, looking to episodes 2, 3, 4, and 5. From CBS this morning. The never-Trumpers see this as chaos. The Trumpers see this as moving best folks into right positions, cutting losses, keeping folks on their toes. In the bottom photo, I agree: three of the four, and perhaps all four, need to go, sooner than later. There's one face in the crowd that unfortunately does not show up in either photo below:

If nothing else, this will keep the US Senate busy with confirmation hearings.