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doesn seem to be a conversation in the regulatory world saying there a fundamental conflict between owning oil pipelines and trading on the price of oil?

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more like a professor than a senator.

The freshman lawmaker, a Democrat, is already well known in some financial circles as a force behind the Volcker rule, which clamped down on banks speculative bets. Merkley recalls phoning at least 80 other senators personally to convince them of its merits.

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was certainly an education about what can go wrong if the same entity is both making bets on the price of something, and able to influence its supply and demand, Merkley flomax side effects when quitting. said.

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Street can run itself just fine. It probably doesn need Jeff Merkley help, he said.

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