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Emanuel Cleaver: Greed brought the world to the very brink of an economic cataclysm.

On the recordSeptember 24, 2018
Greed brought the world to the very brink of an economic cataclysm.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Cleaver reflects on the consequences of greed during the 2008 economic crisis.

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