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On the recordApril 14, 2015
There are a lot of people who are watching what is happening in the industry, and we find that we are afraid that what happened in the housing market with subprime lending is now what is happening with automobile lending.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters expresses concern about parallels between subprime lending in housing and automobile lending.

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