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Ben Bernanke: “We do not want any more AIGs. We do not want any more Lehman Brothers.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
We do not want any more AIGs. We do not want any more Lehman Brothers.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke warns against repeating past financial failures.

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