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credit default swaps
While the government is talking limits on credit-default swaps, maybe we’d do best to ban “counter-investing”?
Oct 11, 2008 | America in Crisis, Esrati on the Economy
Investing and the market should be about good faith in a company- after all, isn’t that what all the debt rating…
Why Johnny Q. Public can’t pay his mortgage but can bail out Wall Street
Sep 29, 2008 | America in Crisis, campaign finance, Change the world, End corporate welfare, Esrati on the Economy, Our Broken political system
Our system is broke. It’s now as morally bankrupt as Wall Street. The American dream is now a complete and utter…
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