Last week, President Obama announced a sweeping proposal to limit the size of the nation’s largest banks and regulate their risk-taking, an idea long championed by adviser and former chairman of the Fed, Paul Volcker. Long respected for his financial and economic acumen, Volcker, the chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, has been instrumental in guiding the president’s policies, and is a champion of smart regulation.

Now, with so many big banks involved in both commercial and investment banking, Paul Volcker believes that a separation between the two is necessary, to protect consumers from the inherent risks involved in investment banking. “The heart of my argument,” he says, “is who we are going to save and who we are not going to save. And I don’t want to save what is not at the heart of commercial banking.”

Regardless of the outcome of President Obama’s proposals, corporate speaker Paul Volcker has revealed himself to be a powerful force in the nation’s continuing path towards economic recovery. With in-the-trenches insight honed from years of work on Wall Street and in the federal government, Volcker offers an even-keeled approach to understanding how financial regulation and changing economic policies will affect business.

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