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Barack Obama: The Bush Administration fundamentally saw the internationalization of financial markets as a pretext for weakening U.S.…

On the recordMarch 9, 2009
The Bush Administration fundamentally saw the internationalization of financial markets as a pretext for weakening U.S. investor protections.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Critique of the previous administration's approach to investor protections.

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