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   charliekane said, about 1 year ago

   Next stop.
   The Twilight Zone.

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   jimbo90036 said, about 1 year ago

   Nest Egg?

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   Alexus_The_Great said, about 1 year ago

   This is your nest egg under Republican Administration…

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   momsaid said, about 1 year ago

   If deregulation was the cause, why were banks pressured to make risky loans to unqualified people? They could have made safer decisions w/o Acorn and CRA breathing down their necks. Think about it…if you want to stay in business, do you deal with customers who pay their bills? Yes? Gee, it even makes sense…

   You wanna try LOGIC (not the computer language) the next time you draw a comic?

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   lalas said, about 1 year ago

   momsaid… the bad loans were an issue, but a small part of it. The CRA resulted in 1/4 of the bad loans. There was a study done that demonstrates that the banks putting CRA loans out there were much more responsible in their lending methods than commercial banks lending to regular people.
   http://www.traigerlaw.com/publications/traigerhinckleyllpcraforeclosurestudy1-7-08.pdf

   The much larger and UNREGULATED aspect of the meltdown, was that bad mortgages were bundled, sold, repackaged, hedged, rehedged, reverse-hedged and banks were leveraging debt at a 60 to 1 ratio.

   I urge you to listen to these 2 stories for an easy to understand explanation of the larger issue.
   http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355
   http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365

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   scuzzimoi said, about 1 year ago

   and all the King’s horses, and all the King’s men,