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On the recordJune 29, 2011
There was a couple hundred billion dollars of dividends that got paid out of banks and bank holding companies leading up to the crisis that should never, in my view, have happened.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Shelby emphasizes the need for regulators to monitor bank dividends to prevent financial crises.

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