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Skin in the Game

By Joe Weber | Published: June 18, 2009
1. Banks, mortgages, and Skin in the Game - One of the major causes of our current financial crisis was how banks were handling mortgages.  Banks used to lend a home buyer money, betting on the fact that they’d repay that money back to the bank.  Thanks to mortgage backed securities, banks could lend someone [...]
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Obama and the Special Olympics

By Joe Weber | Published: March 20, 2009
1. Pres. Obama w/ Jay Leno on his Bowling Skills: “It was like Special Olympics or something” - A fair point is being made by the right on what the President said…  IMAGINE what would have happened if President Bush would have said this.  I think we’ve all said terrible awful things and not intended [...]
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