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Old 09-30-2008, 05:23 AM   #2
Griff
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Originally Posted by classicman View Post
This whole mess started when Clinton was in office and the lenders had quotas to reach on "affordable" housing.
That is one thread. There is also deregulation without transparency, enormous deficit spending, desperation, and criminality. Some hedge fund numbers come out today supposedly the same smarties who created a lot of these bullshit portfolios moved to hedge funds when things started getting shakey.
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