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Barack Obama: We can't go back to the days when the financial system was stacking the deck against ordinary Americans.

On the recordJanuary 6, 2012
We can't go back to the days when the financial system was stacking the deck against ordinary Americans.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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