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Richard Shelby: Is your premise basically trying to take risk out of a marketplace? And if there is no risk, there is no marketplace, is…

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
Is your premise basically trying to take risk out of a marketplace? And if there is no risk, there is no marketplace, is there?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Questioning the implications of reducing risk in financial markets.

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