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Archive for March 6th, 2009

Ressessionauts

Friday, March 6th, 2009

We are in a recession. Why? Common opinion goes like this: the government subsidized housing because everybody should own a home banks give out loans they should not (and that people should not have taken) meta-banks sell credit default swaps (CDS, insurance for the bad loans) credit rating agencies give these CDSs abnormally high ratings [...]