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Bernie Sanders: “Are we looking at a form of three-piece-suit CEO corporate loan sharking here?”

On the recordMarch 23, 2009
Are we looking at a form of three-piece-suit CEO corporate loan sharking here?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Senator Sanders questions the morality of high-interest lending practices.

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