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On the recordJuly 16, 2012
If the fiscal cliff is allowed to happen, it would probably knock the recovery back into a recession and cost a lot of jobs.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke warns about the consequences of not addressing the fiscal cliff.

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