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Carl Levin: “You may not think a half-a-billion dollars is a lot, but the fact that you were able to get through 2007, when the…”

On the recordApril 26, 2010
You may not think a half-a-billion dollars is a lot, but the fact that you were able to get through 2007, when the bubble burst, was because you went with the big short.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin critiques the financial strategy during the 2007 bubble burst.

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