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On the recordMarch 28, 2011
Guarantees are perilous. Governments are not very good at doing them, not very good at designing them, not very good at pricing them, not very good at limiting the moral hazard risk that comes with them.
Said by
Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Senator Shelby quotes Secretary Geithner on the risks of government guarantees.

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