Jonathan Swift, a dean of St Patrick's cathedral in Dublin, could not have done better.

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Cooley is Dean of the NYU Stern School of Business, which delivered its swift response to the financial turmoil, a collection of 18 papers examining different aspects of the phenomenon, to 100 leading U.S. policymakers, including inside the Obama administration, Congress, the Federal Reserve and financial regulators, bringing an appreciative response.

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