Richard Shelby actually said...

I think we have got ourselves in a real jam in this country when we come up with the doctrine of 'too big to fail' and then we say, gosh, we have got to create a systemic regulator to deal with this.

Context

Shelby critiques the 'too big to fail' doctrine and the need for regulation.

07/27/2009

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