39 Percent Of Americans Never Heard Of Dodd-Frank

Now that Dodd-Frank is five years old it’s worth asking whether Americans have faith in the regulatory regime, unfortunately 39% of the country has never heard of the bill and another 27% say they don’t know much about it. “This may be why almost no pollsters in the public domain ask about the bill by name,” write Karlyn Bowman, Eleanor O’Neil, and Heather Sims in the American Enterprise Institute report Dodd Frank at Five. “Despite the federal government’s efforts to regulate the financial industry, Americans do not believe our economic system is more secure than it was before the financial…