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Old 10-27-2008, 08:26 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by audreyh1 View Post
It seems to me that it was really the excessive leverage that made all of this so risky. Yes, the other stuff was a mess too. But if there hadn't been such extreme leverage, perhaps the rest of the mess would have been survivable without causing a collapse of the financial system?
Yup . . .and that applies to just about everything from houses to hedge funds.
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