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On the recordDecember 7, 2010
This was not so much a crash based on some glitch; this was an intentional effort on the part of somebody who had as little as $30 to $50 million and a few computers and a couple programmers.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin describes a market crash as a deliberate action by a small trader.

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