Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should over time bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.
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Our goal is to make finance the servant not the master of the real economy.
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Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.