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Elizabeth Warren: “TARP has also failed to check the culture of excessive risktaking that brought on this crisis.”

On the recordNovember 18, 2009
TARP has also failed to check the culture of excessive risktaking that brought on this crisis.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren critiques TARP for not addressing excessive risk-taking in finance.

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