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Jeff Merkley: “Enabling essentially taxpayer-subsidized hedge funds to operate with our deposits and put the entire banking system at…”

On the recordOctober 27, 2015
Enabling essentially taxpayer-subsidized hedge funds to operate with our deposits and put the entire banking system at great risk would be absolutely no service to Americans in urban or rural America.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley criticizes risky financial practices that endanger the banking system.

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