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Jack Reed: “And if the economy gets worse for reasons not directly related to this, such as the sovereign debt crisis overseas…”

On the recordNovember 15, 2010
And if the economy gets worse for reasons not directly related to this, such as the sovereign debt crisis overseas, etc., then the foreclosure problem we face today, you know, the bottom keeps slipping down, down, down, down, down, and this problem becomes really tremendous.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Senator Reed warns about the potential worsening of the foreclosure crisis.

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