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Sam Brownback: “If I could, if we get in another financial crisis, and if the trajectory of the past is a projection of the future, it…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009
If I could, if we get in another financial crisis, and if the trajectory of the past is a projection of the future, it looks like we will, and it will be sooner rather than later, will the courage exist here to allow those triggers to be pulled, or are we just caught because these things will, in likelihood, exacerbate a financial crisis if you let one of these things go down like we saw with Lehman Brothers.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

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Brownback questions the willingness to act during future financial crises.

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