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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

Henry Paulson

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Henry Paulson
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 28
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Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
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Palm Beach
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