VIDEO: Richard Bitner on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show: Richard Bitner explains why the risky business of subprime mortgages end up costing the taxpayers money. - The Daily Show
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John Hussman: How the War, Tax Cuts and the Swaps Market Debased the U.S. Financial System - The policies of recent years have indeed been stimulative. But stimulative to what? Primarily to unproductive investment and poor credit. - Hussman Investment Trust
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How Much of Fannie/Freddie Paper is Held Overseas? - Barry Ritholtz - The Big Picture
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Hamptons House Prices Fall Amid Wall Street’s Decline - Sharon L. Lynch and Laura Marcinek - … Second-quarter sales volume dropped 29 percent and the median price fell 11 percent to $735,000 from a year earlier in the resort communities on the East End of New York’s Long Island, Suffolk Research Service Inc. said … - Bloomberg
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