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On the recordDecember 9, 2009
So, let me just, if I can, pinpoint--how can it be that we can manage to put hundreds of billions of dollars into the hands of very large financial institutions, in what was effectively a matter of days, and 14 months into TARP, we're still talking about trying to figure out how to put much, much smaller amounts of money into very small financial institutions?
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren critiques the slow distribution of funds to small banks compared to large institutions.

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