A Catastrophe Foretold

Story date: 2007-10-26 02:45:00
Added on: 2007-10-26 07:45:47

New York Times - Over half the mortgage loans were made by independent lenders without any federal supervision.” What he didn’t mention was that this was the way the laissez-faire ideologues ruling Washington — a group that very much included Mr. Greenspan ...


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