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Elizabeth Warren: “To me, this is an easy decision. We can raise the threshold and cut loose half or more of the biggest banks in the…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
To me, this is an easy decision. We can raise the threshold and cut loose half or more of the biggest banks in the country and just hope they do not make the same mistakes that they made in 2008 when they nearly brought down the whole economy and had to be bailed out.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren argues against raising the bank asset threshold for regulations to avoid economic risks.

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