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To: Kaslin
“As the details behind the current debacle are unraveled, we see how government created one more entitlement — the right to own a house — and then devised an array of programs to subsidize in various ways “affordable housing.””

This along with the FED lowering interest rates in the early 2000’s all the way down to 1%. This spurred on the credit/debt bubble and more home purchases and construction.

4 posted on 10/06/2008 4:16:16 AM PDT by Need4Truth
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To: Need4Truth

And Wall Street ran with it, unfettered and free, creating all sorts of popcorn fart financial “instruments” to sell back and forth to each other.

But that’s ok, we’ll keep pointing fingers at one aspect, and only one, guaranteeing that all points of blame remain intact to do it again the future.


8 posted on 10/06/2008 4:25:58 AM PDT by Wolfie
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