Live updates from Five Years Later: A Financial Crisis Symposium

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Today, the Paulson Institute and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics are hosting a Financial Crisis Symposium to mark the five-year anniversary of the 2008 financial collapse. Our reporters Sandra Guy and Natasha Korecki will be reporting from the symposium and its panels all day, so follow below.

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