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Old August 7th, 2009, 07:57 PM   #12 (permalink)
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It wasn't just risk management. It was risk manipulation that left everyone holding the bag...except the banks who made profits (since they assumed no risk personally and saddled us with their bad debt) who are now using our tax dollars to pay their execs even more.
Goldman Sachs suffered losses. Honestly, I don't get what you're saying. "Risk manipulation"?? If you could manipulate risk, it wouldn't be risk at all.
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