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Bernie Sanders: “If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
If an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders argues that large institutions should not exist if they require bailouts.

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