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Old 12-11-2008, 03:42 PM   #3
Aliantha
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Originally Posted by classicman View Post
Most of the money is apparently staying within the commercial banks. That which is being spent is covering past debts. How this trickle down shit was supposed to work is beyond me. We could have bought every defaulting loan and still had plenty to spare to waste elsewhere. At least that way more people would have kept their homes... maybe.
Well if we're going to talk about trickle down effect, then it definitely happens a lot fucking quicker on the way out than on the way in.

It took 10 years for economies to top out thanks to growing economies and it's taken less than 1 year for them to go to shit when the proverbial hit the fan.
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