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Pat Toomey: “Like virtually 100 percent of the cases, it was because they had bad loans.”

On the recordJune 5, 2012
Like virtually 100 percent of the cases, it was because they had bad loans.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey highlights that bank failures are primarily due to bad loans.

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