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On the recordJanuary 25, 2011
It wasn't regulations that caused our financial collapse and the deepest economic recession since the Great Depression. It was unbridled deregulation.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman argues that deregulation, not regulation, led to the financial crisis.

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