Pop quiz: Which high-profile official faulted the Obama administration for the following botched responses to the financial crisis?
1) Policing bad banks: "The enforcement response we sought came way more slowly than would have been ideal … and (inevitably) fell far short of what people thought would be appropriate …
2) A mortgage task force Obama announced in his 2012 State of the Union speech "was not about the average individual victims, but more the fights among the consenting adults that had sold and bought mortgage securities that performed badly."
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