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Thomas Ferguson of U. Mass, Boston and Robert Johnson of the Roosevelt Institute argue that letting Lehman fail--not the later bailout announcement--triggered the financial collapse, contrary to the views of John Taylor and John Cochrane and Luigi Zingales.
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