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Ben Bernanke: “The belief by market participants that some firms may be too big to fail has many undesirable effects.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
The belief by market participants that some firms may be too big to fail has many undesirable effects.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke addresses the moral hazard of banks being deemed too big to fail.

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