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dkf

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3. No...they stopped writing those especially since AIG blew up over it.

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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 02:14 PM

Jan 2013

Moreover how many bank failures did we see? Quite a few, Wachovia, Countrywide... Citi, BofA, Morgan Stanley, Goldman were all doomed without government help.

If you look at stock prices today, that was a pretty bad failure if it was any type of planned scheme.

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How Ruthless Banks Gutted the Black Middle Class and Got Away With It [View all] Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 OP

I don't understand why the regulations are so loose still... dkf Jan 2013 #1

The entirely purposeful predatory lending evidently involves the banks taking insurance out Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 #2

No...they stopped writing those especially since AIG blew up over it. dkf Jan 2013 #3