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On the recordJune 28, 2011
So I want to back up and see if I heard you correctly. You say that commodity trades in the near past sometimes were unsettled for 3 or 4 years?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions the duration of unsettled commodity trades.

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