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Lars28

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40. Yes, and yet they cost the taxpayers billions of dollars.

Reply to hughee99 (Reply #36)

Fri Apr 4, 2014, 12:20 PM

Apr 2014

Because they allowed the S&L scam to go on long after it should have been stopped. Result: the bailout was much more expensive.

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