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Emanuel Cleaver: the fact that we had the 2008 collapse was due in no small part to the failure to separate commercial banking from…

On the recordMarch 23, 2015
the fact that we had the 2008 collapse was due in no small part to the failure to separate commercial banking from investment banking.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

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Cleaver attributes the 2008 financial collapse to the lack of separation in banking.

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