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Alan Grayson: “So why is it that we do something like enable banks to absorb losses from bad assets in this program?”

On the recordJuly 21, 2009
So why is it that we do something like enable banks to absorb losses from bad assets in this program?
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Alan Grayson
Florida

Editor's note · Context

Grayson questions the rationale behind supporting failing banks instead of good ones.

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