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Tom Harkin: We have built our consumption based upon basically debt or bubble assets, that type of thing, rather than just earnings.

On the recordJanuary 20, 2010
We have built our consumption based upon basically debt or bubble assets, that type of thing, rather than just earnings.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin critiques the reliance on debt and asset bubbles for economic growth.

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