Occupy Vigilantes Write New Volcker Rule Script: Susan Antilla

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March 1 (Bloomberg) -- It isn’t every day that a reportergets to sit in on a high-stakes policy meeting in New York’sfinancial district, but that’s exactly what I did on a balmyevening in late February at 60 Wall Street, the U.S.headquarters of Deutsche Bank AG.

No, the bank didn’t lose its institutional marbles and giveme clearance to scribble notes while its cognoscenti mapped outcorporate strategy. The confab I dropped in on was taking placeunder potted palm trees in the bank’s ground-floor publicatrium, and the participants were 13 members of Occupy the SEC,a spinoff group of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I can’t helpbut conclude that their plans for petitions, marches, op-eds andsit-down meetings with banking regulators will be inflictingWall Street with a long, nasty attack of agita.