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Byron Donalds: “The financial collapse of 2008 [led me to start doing a lot…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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A Conversation with Congressman Byron Donalds | Ep. 010

Published | Video Starts at 09:35

I would spend time with my kids, my wife. I was a youth leader in our. In our church. So those are the things that I cared about. It was The financial collapse of 2008 [led me to start doing a lot of economic research on the economy]. The company that I worked for was an insurance firm, and our investors were going to pull the investment unless I went and did research, because I worked in banking before insurance. (09:35–09:39)

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Asserts that the 2008 financial collapse prompted him to research the economy.

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