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Sherrod Brown: “You really--you make the statement that all of a sudden because of the Durbin rule, these banks cut down on the number…”

On the recordApril 4, 2016
You really--you make the statement that all of a sudden because of the Durbin rule, these banks cut down on the number of free checking accounts, the amount of free checking they were doing, that is a pretty tentative cause and effect that you really cannot prove.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Brown questions the causal link between the Durbin rule and the reduction of free checking accounts.

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