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Bob Corker: “If you broke up, let us say, the largest institutions, you created thirty $400 to $500 billion institutions, if you had…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2011
If you broke up, let us say, the largest institutions, you created thirty $400 to $500 billion institutions, if you had a systemic crisis, you would do exactly the same thing.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker argues that breaking up banks wouldn't prevent systemic crises.

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