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Jim Himes: “Yes, yes. The pre-Volcker--none of us want to go back to 2008, right? Where I would argue you had a surplus of…”

On the recordMarch 28, 2017
Yes, yes. The pre-Volcker--none of us want to go back to 2008, right? Where I would argue you had a surplus of liquidity, so again--
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes warns against returning to the liquidity conditions of 2008.

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