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Jim Himes: “I get a lot more comfortable on this stuff, on these ideas, if the investors who are purchasing these securities…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
I get a lot more comfortable on this stuff, on these ideas, if the investors who are purchasing these securities understand that they are purchasing a slightly different category of securities than everything else.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes emphasizes the importance of investor understanding regarding different securities categories.

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