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Sherrod Brown, Democratic Senator from Ohio, during a meeting with Paulson:

And Mr. Brown, the senator from Ohio, demanded to know whether Wall Street owed Main Street an apology.

The economic experts seemed uncertain who would issue that apology, given that Wall Street, in the words of Mr. Bernanke, is an abstraction. But Mr. Paulson conceded the public had a right to be mad.