Why Are the Fed and SEC Keeping Wall Street’s Secrets?

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April 2 (Bloomberg) -- Getting what should be publicinformation about major Wall Street firms can be maddeninglydifficult.

Bloomberg News discovered this in its ultimately successfuleffort to get information on the $1.2 trillion in “secretloans” the Fed doled out during the financial crisis. And I’vehad no small experience of it myself.