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Frank Lautenberg: Letting Wall Street regulate itself helped trigger this crisis, sending millions of Americans to the unemployment line…

On the recordMarch 20, 2012
Letting Wall Street regulate itself helped trigger this crisis, sending millions of Americans to the unemployment line and causing their retirement accounts to shrink.
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Frank Lautenberg
Democratic · New Jersey

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Critique of self-regulation leading to economic crisis and job losses.

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