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Old 10-11-2008, 02:24 PM   #43 (permalink)
kingstu

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Like I said earlier, I appreciate your charts from the St. Louis Fed but they make zero sense to me.
You have to look past your own experience and look at the data. The FED has no reason to manipulate the data and even if they did…the data can be independently verified.

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Countless brokers have gone out of business.
This is exactly what you would expect to happen in a bubble. How many tech workers and companies went down in 2001?

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Giant lending institutions have gone bankrupt or are in process. The biggest banks in the world are laying off huge numbers of employees in the mortgage sector. Home sales figures have completely tanked. These are undeniable, FACTS.
How many banks have failed compared to how many banks are in the U.S.?
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