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Ron Johnson: “The deep recession 2009, that was the basically catalyst for…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Chairman Johnson at Euro Affairs Subcomm hearing on financial crisis in Greece

Published | Video Starts at 21:15

And that comes that the crisis really hits the than in 2009. But people had seen it coming really I think for some time before that. They're in such deep trouble that The deep recession 2009, that was the basically catalyst for the ongoing crisis then. Well, I think they had in the interim some other problems. I mentioned the interest rates set this time by the European Central bank, which may have not been too … (21:15–21:23)

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Asserts that the 2009 recession was a catalyst for an ongoing crisis.

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