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1. Exactly! Not to mention - what drove the housing bubbles?

Wed May 23, 2012, 02:19 PM

May 2012

Weren't the banks who were ever willing to write higher and higher mortgages significant players?

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Why are we expected to be smarter than the banks? [View all] cthulu2016 May 2012 OP

Exactly! Not to mention - what drove the housing bubbles? hedgehog May 2012 #1

An Occupy LA member sums it up so well: Fire Walk With Me May 2012 #3

The Banks here are renting. Downwinder May 2012 #4

in order to avoid blaming the banks KurtNYC May 2012 #5

... cthulu2016 May 2012 #6