Opinion and Comments posts for February 2012
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By Andre F. Shashaty The mortgage foreclosure settlement announced this week is being hailed as a lifeline for homeowners. But it’s equally important as a kind of Waterloo for the banks and their conquest of the U.S. government. The financial services industry has been pillaging and plundering almost continuously since former Republican Senator Phil Gramm championed deregulation and repealed depression-era banking laws in 1999. The banks celebrated what may have been...
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