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Jim Bunning: “If you think that the Fed is an independent agency, you are smoking something that is illegal.”

On the recordMarch 23, 2009
If you think that the Fed is an independent agency, you are smoking something that is illegal.
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Jim Bunning

Editor's note · Context

Bunning questions the independence of the Federal Reserve amidst financial bailouts.

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