” Dodd-Frank “is not a perfect law,” said Dennis M. Kelleher, president and CEO of the nonprofit Better Markets. “Democracy is not perfect.”

Kelleher, a proponent of the legislation, was speaking Monday at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the think tank created by Blackstone Group co-founder Peter G. Peterson.

The luncheon and Q&A, co-hosted by Better Markets and the Peterson Institute, also featured Simon Johnson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of “White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You.” “

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