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Barack Obama: If the Security Exchange had regulated Wall Street the way we regulate teachers, we wouldn't be in this financial mess.

On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
If the Security Exchange had regulated Wall Street the way we regulate teachers, we wouldn't be in this financial mess.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama criticizes the regulation of teachers compared to Wall Street.

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