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On the recordJuly 17, 2017
Almost all of the decline that we have seen since the dot-com bubble, 1995-1996, 75 percent of the decline actually in the number of public companies occurred prior to the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes discusses the decline of public companies and its timing related to Sarbanes-Oxley.

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