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Richard Shelby: We are always going to have in a market system winners and losers, failures and success, and that is the genius of the…

On the recordSeptember 29, 2009
We are always going to have in a market system winners and losers, failures and success, and that is the genius of the market in a sense.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby emphasizes the inevitability of market failures and successes.

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