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Elizabeth Warren: “There was no reason to develop a business model that put tricks and traps in back and you pretended to compete on things…”

On the recordJune 23, 2009
There was no reason to develop a business model that put tricks and traps in back and you pretended to compete on things that were not real.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes deceptive business practices in financial services.

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