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Bob Menendez: If we have institutions that are too big to fail, have we not failed already because they create systemic risk?

On the recordJune 17, 2009
If we have institutions that are too big to fail, have we not failed already because they create systemic risk?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Menendez questions the effectiveness of institutions deemed too big to fail.

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