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Sheldon Whitehouse: “It will be worse than the 2008 mortgage meltdown and pretty much everybody in the financial sector is talking about what…”

On the recordMay 24, 2022
It will be worse than the 2008 mortgage meltdown and pretty much everybody in the financial sector is talking about what happens when the carbon bubble bursts.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse compares potential climate-related economic crises to the 2008 financial crisis.

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