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Brad Sherman: “If you are going to provide more protection and less freedom, you would think you would do that for my 86-year-old…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2015
If you are going to provide more protection and less freedom, you would think you would do that for my 86-year-old mother rather than for me.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman argues that protections should prioritize the elderly over younger investors.

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