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Jackie Speier: “When you speak to the term ``transparency,'' do you think that Goldman would have sold a dollar's worth of those…”

On the recordApril 28, 2010
When you speak to the term ``transparency,'' do you think that Goldman would have sold a dollar's worth of those synthetic collateralized debt obligations if people knew that their other client was shorting them and that 90 percent of them were no-doc loans that were destined to fail?
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California
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Apr 28, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing the lack of transparency in financial practices related to Goldman Sachs.

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