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On the recordNovember 1, 2021
I often begin these hearings by taking us back to 2008, and to the years that followed, because we are still living with the fallout--and in the case of the Libor scandal, we are still cleaning up a mess caused by the biggest banks in the world, more than a decade later.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Sherrod Brown reflects on the ongoing impact of the 2008 financial crisis.

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