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BBRUN
05-14-2008, 01:29 PM
``Intervention in a broad range of credit-market instruments may imply official support for a particular sector of the market or the economy,'' Volcker said in testimony to the congressional Joint Economic Committee in Washington today. Support for specific markets ``throws them into political battles,'' he said in an interview, referring to the Fed.

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