Seems to me what you'd need is a president who is both business-friendly and financially astute in his own right to get legislation through to rein in the madness of Wall Street at the time (e.g., the extremely small margins used) and impose some measure of sanity. If he could get nominated and elected, Charles Dawes would be ideal for the situation.
Too bad he alienated Coolidge so early on in his tenure as VP; had he not, he might have been able to advocate some sort of regulatory legislation (a proto-SEC, perhaps) in addition to the Dawes Plan.
Too bad he alienated Coolidge so early on in his tenure as VP; had he not, he might have been able to advocate some sort of regulatory legislation (a proto-SEC, perhaps) in addition to the Dawes Plan.