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Bob Menendez: I wonder if it is not moral hazard to allow a nation to go into a depression?

On the recordMarch 16, 2011
I wonder if it is not moral hazard to allow a nation to go into a depression?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez questions the morality of allowing a nation to face depression.

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