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On the recordJuly 28, 2015
Talk a little bit more about what I would consider the possibility or almost certainty of the misallocation of capital when you have unrealistically low interest rates, how you do chase yield, how you end up putting money into high-risk assets, creating the types of bubbles that we saw burst in the housing crisis.
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson discusses the risks of low interest rates leading to capital misallocation.

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