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Old 10-14-11, 11:25 AM   #14
Osmium Steele
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie View Post
It was much the same here. People had the attitude that "hey the lender knows what they're doing, they wouldn't loan me the money if I couldn't repay it." But the lenders never cared about the loans being repaid. They sold them off to the securitizers on Wall Street to be packaged into garbage securities.
You are on the right track, just keep digging. It does not begin, nor end, with Wall Street. The private securitizers were a symptom, not a cause.
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