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Janet Yellen: “It is hard to say. Certainly, lending standards are much tighter than they were in the run-up to the financial crisis...”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
It is hard to say. Certainly, lending standards are much tighter than they were in the run-up to the financial crisis...
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen comments on the impact of Dodd-Frank on lending standards.

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