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Emanuel Cleaver: “I was in here when Ben Bernanke, Christopher Cox, Sheila Bair, and Henry Paulson walked in to tell us that the financial…”

On the recordSeptember 24, 2019
I was in here when Ben Bernanke, Christopher Cox, Sheila Bair, and Henry Paulson walked in to tell us that the financial system of this country was going down the drain by Monday.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Cleaver recalls the urgency of the 2008 financial crisis.

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