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Ben Bernanke: “It would be a self-inflicted wound, I would say.”

On the recordJuly 13, 2011
It would be a self-inflicted wound, I would say.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Bernanke describes the consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling as damaging.

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