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Bernie Sanders: “If financial institutions are too big to fail, they are too big to exist. It is time to break them up.”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
If financial institutions are too big to fail, they are too big to exist. It is time to break them up.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Advocating for breaking up large financial institutions to prevent future crises.

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