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Gary Gensler: “Leverage in the American economy is one of the big causes of the crisis.”

On the recordJune 3, 2009
Leverage in the American economy is one of the big causes of the crisis.
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Gary Gensler
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Gensler asserts that leverage significantly contributed to the economic crisis.

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