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Barney Frank: “With regard to asset managers, to clarify, I don't think as a general rule they should be. AIG could have, should have…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
With regard to asset managers, to clarify, I don't think as a general rule they should be. AIG could have, should have been.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Frank discusses the designation of asset managers as systemically important financial institutions.

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