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Tim Geithner: This crisis is partly the result of failures in consumer protection.

On the recordFebruary 9, 2009
This crisis is partly the result of failures in consumer protection.
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Tim Geithner
New York

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Geithner highlights consumer protection failures as a cause of the financial crisis.

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