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Jim Himes: “A crisis, as we all know, put 8 million people out of work, partly due to the unregulated swaps market.”

On the recordDecember 11, 2012
A crisis, as we all know, put 8 million people out of work, partly due to the unregulated swaps market.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes highlights the impact of the unregulated swaps market on unemployment.

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