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.
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
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Merkley criticizes risky financial practices that endanger the banking system.
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