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Date: 2007-10-24 (Wednesday)
The increasing economic clout of undemocratic governments could mean that "our markets will be less transparent, less yielding to outside law enforcement."
-- Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, in a speech at Harvard University






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