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Elizabeth Warren: “This is great for big banks already making record profits. But it is the taxpayers that end up on the hook for the risk.”

On the recordApril 18, 2018
This is great for big banks already making record profits. But it is the taxpayers that end up on the hook for the risk.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes the rollback of capital requirements benefiting banks at taxpayers' expense.

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