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Jeanne Shaheen: And we, certainly, took a different approach to the financial crisis than Europe did, because their approach was to go…

On the recordJuly 28, 2015
And we, certainly, took a different approach to the financial crisis than Europe did, because their approach was to go full speed ahead on austerity. Ours was to provide investment in a way to prime the pump of the economy.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Shaheen contrasts U.S. and European responses to the financial crisis.

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