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Gary Gensler: “Well, I think that--it has never happened, but we cannot rule it out, and we should make sure that--and it is one of the…”

On the recordJune 21, 2009
Well, I think that--it has never happened, but we cannot rule it out, and we should make sure that--and it is one of the lessons of this crisis, is that we have to make sure that our statutes are up to date so that in an extreme circumstance----
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Gary Gensler
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Gensler emphasizes the need for updated statutes for emergency lending.

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