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Maurice Hinchey: “That is too big to fail safely. That is what we have got to avoid. That is what we have got to get rid of.”

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
That is too big to fail safely. That is what we have got to avoid. That is what we have got to get rid of.
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Maurice Hinchey
New York

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Hinchey argues against the concept of banks being too big to fail.

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