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Bernie Sanders: “When you have six financial institutions with that much economic power, why shouldn't we break them up?”

On the recordOctober 3, 2011
When you have six financial institutions with that much economic power, why shouldn't we break them up?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders questions the concentration of power among large financial institutions.

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