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Lindsey Graham: “This idea that you are too big to fail, that does not set well with me.”

On the recordMarch 2, 2009
This idea that you are too big to fail, that does not set well with me.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham expresses discomfort with the concept of institutions being 'too big to fail.'

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