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Old 09-17-2008, 07:38 PM   #18
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The subprime problem was not caused by the demand for loans, but the demand for new places for surplus funds created by the Bush/McPOW tax cuts (actually, just big loans from abroad) to be invested at relatively high rates of return, and due to Gramm/McPOW, deregulation of same.
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