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On the recordApril 4, 2017
The catastrophe was caused by the simultaneous collapse of all three legs of our financial system: the collapse of Republican monetary policy; Republican fiscal policy; and Republican regulatory policy.
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Bill Foster
Democratic · Illinois

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Foster blames Republican policies for the financial system's collapse.

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