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On the recordFebruary 23, 2009
We would be delighted if the Congress would pass a substantial resolution regime that would create a set of rules and expectations for how you deal with a firm of this type that is failing and leave the central bank out of it entirely.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke advocates for Congress to establish clear rules for handling failing firms.

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