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John Conyers: “Basically, it was the regulatory equivalent of the Wild West.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2013
Basically, it was the regulatory equivalent of the Wild West.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Describing the lack of regulation that led to the Great Recession.

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