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Jeb Hensarling: Finally, I hope, I hope that in America the term 'systemic risk' is not now being used the way the term 'internal…

On the recordJune 10, 2009
Finally, I hope, I hope that in America the term 'systemic risk' is not now being used the way the term 'internal securities' was once used in the farmer Soviet Bloc.
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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Hensarling warns against using 'systemic risk' as a justification for government intervention.

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