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Mark Warner: “I would like to hear out those arguments because it does seem to me that from at least a broader-based societal…”

On the recordMarch 25, 2009
I would like to hear out those arguments because it does seem to me that from at least a broader-based societal standpoint, the outside risk and the downside risk that we as a society, in effect, have taken on by these nonskin in the game offside bets, we are sure seeing the downside of that.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

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Warner calls for consideration of opposing arguments regarding credit default swaps.

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