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Það er beitt grein af vefútgáfu Guardian, guardian.co.uk, skrifuð í framhaldi af brunaútsölunni á bandaríska fjárfestingabankanum Bear Stearns, sem var fimmti stærsti fjárfestingabanki í BNA. Fyrirsögnin er America was conned - who will pay?
Þar segir m.a.:
Business, of course, needs consumers to carry on spending in order to make money, so a way had to be found to persuade households to do their patriotic duty. The method chosen was simple. Whip up a colossal housing bubble, convince consumers that it makes sense to borrow money against the rising value of their homes to supplement their meagre real wage growth and watch the profits roll in.
As they did - for a while.
Now it's payback time and the mood could get very ugly. Americans, to put it bluntly, have been conned. They have been duped by a bunch of serpent-tongued hucksters who packed up the wagon and made it across the county line before a lynch mob could be formed.
Þetta er, a.m.k. framan af, kunnugleg lýsing á atburðarás.
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