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Meredith Whitney Says US Economy Needs Rebuild From the Ground Up

Monday, October 12, 2009

Meredith Whitney ultimately believes that the entire U.S. economy needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Financial services were our greatest export, she said, and now we need to create something new for the world to buy. That process, she believes, will take several years.

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