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Barack Obama: “If we had had a regulatory system that had kept pace with the changes in the financial system, that would have had an…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2008
If we had had a regulatory system that had kept pace with the changes in the financial system, that would have had an enormous impact in containing some of the problems that are out there.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Interview with Steve Kroft of CBS News' '60 Minutes'

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