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Elizabeth Warren: “Well, all right, but they have gotten bigger. So whatever you are doing is obviously not causing them to get smaller…”

On the recordJune 24, 2014
Well, all right, but they have gotten bigger. So whatever you are doing is obviously not causing them to get smaller, and that adds additional risk.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren emphasizes that regulations have failed to reduce the size of big banks.

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