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Tim Geithner: “Senator, you're absolutely right that one of those things that helped produce this crisis was that, in our country, we…”

On the recordJune 8, 2009
Senator, you're absolutely right that one of those things that helped produce this crisis was that, in our country, we allowed people to choose their regulator, to put risk in areas where they thought it was going to be least well-regulated.
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Tim Geithner
New York

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Agreeing with Senator Collins on the dangers of regulatory arbitrage.

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