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Emanuel Cleaver: I listened to Ben Bernanke this past Sunday on one of the shows, and he said he thought that the Great Recession was…

On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
I listened to Ben Bernanke this past Sunday on one of the shows, and he said he thought that the Great Recession was worse than the Depression because of the whiplash that is still being felt.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Cleaver references Bernanke's view on the severity of the Great Recession.

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