During the campaign season, there was a meeting with the Wall Street barons by the leaders of the other side. They promised them exactly this: that they were going to essentially go back to an unregulated system. It almost bankrupted the entire country. And the American public should not be fooled again by people on the other side saying that somehow they're doing this to protect their interests on Wall Street.
Fattah discusses the dangers of returning to an unregulated financial system.
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