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From the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Term oil continues in the banking sector, which is raising a new question.

Are regulators at this point doing more harm than good?

And Chinese leaders using pain arrives in Moscow in a show support for Russian

autographed Vladimir Putin. How worried some are the growing ties between the countries?

Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kim Strassel and joined today by my brilliant colleagues,

Joe Sturberg and Kate Batchel, Darodell. So let's start with the banking sector we're going on like

day 10 of problems in that area. And things seem to be just as uncertain. At the moment,

there's very moment there are talks led by JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond to potentially

rescue again, first Republic bank, over the weekends with officials engineered a forced

acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS, though only after this was government had to provide some

9 billion to backstop some of the losses that UBS would take. And Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

today said that the U.S. might move to cover deposits of yet more banks if there are more runs,

a statement that seemed designed to calm, but also suggests there could still be some big problems

out there. Joe amid all this, I guess I'd just make two points. One, more than a decade ago after our

last banking crisis, Congress swooped in with this complex new set of rules called Dodd-Frank and

told us that because of these rules, we'd never have a repeat. So I guess what we're seeing here

proves not so much. But the other point is that if Dodd-Frank ever had any merit, it was supposed

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