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Elizabeth Warren: “The bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission spent years looking into the causes of the crisis and identifying the…”

On the recordApril 4, 2016
The bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission spent years looking into the causes of the crisis and identifying the Fed's failure to regulate subprime mortgages as one of the key drivers of the collapse of 2008.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren highlights the Fed's failure in regulating subprime mortgages leading to the 2008 crisis.

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