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Elizabeth Warren: “We have to have $700 billion or the economy will fail.”

On the recordMarch 3, 2010
We have to have $700 billion or the economy will fail.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren emphasizes the urgency of the TARP bailout for economic stability.

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