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Bob Barr: “We don't want to have a system where we just trust the regulators or trust the banks.”

On the recordOctober 21, 2009
We don't want to have a system where we just trust the regulators or trust the banks.
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Bob Barr
Georgia

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Advocating for a system of checks and balances rather than blind trust.

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