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On the recordMarch 23, 2009
If an institution is too big to manage, and a lot of them seem to be---- then it would follow that they are probably too big to regulate---- so we have created a monster among ourselves, have we not.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby argues that large institutions are unmanageable and unregulatable, creating systemic risks.

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