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Baobab

(4,667 posts) Sat Apr 9, 2016, 09:00 PM Apr 2016

What REALLY caused the 2008 Financial Crisis? Out of control DEREGULATION pushed by the US and WTO?

See the following:

https://www.citizen.org/documents/Memo%20-%20Unanswered%20questions%20memo%20for%20Geneva.pdf

http://www.citizen.org/documents/That%27sAllTheyGot.pdf

https://www.citizen.org/documents/memo-gats-conflict-with-bank-size-limits-may-10-2011.pdf

http://www.consumersinternational.org/media/1402116/tacd-finance-resolution-on-trade-rules-and-financial-regulation-green.pdf

https://www.citizen.org/documents/Memo%20-%20Unanswered%20questions%20memo%20for%20Geneva.pdf

http://www.citizen.org/documents/IntroductionToWTODeregulation.pdf

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What REALLY caused the 2008 Financial Crisis? Out of control DEREGULATION pushed by the US and WTO? (Original Post) Baobab Apr 2016 OP

Pretty much. bemildred Apr 2016 #1

No, it was teachers and nurses buying homes they couldn't afford. Scuba Apr 2016 #2

bemildred

(90,061 posts)

1. Pretty much.

Reply to Baobab (Original post)

Sun Apr 10, 2016, 04:16 AM

Apr 2016

The "Conservatives" desire to do absolutely nothing to manage the economy, except to hand out regulatory monopolies to their friends, leads inevitably to the WTO and the sort of corrupt disfunction which we are awash in globally now.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

2. No, it was teachers and nurses buying homes they couldn't afford.

Reply to Baobab (Original post)

Sun Apr 10, 2016, 09:27 AM

Apr 2016

Yeah, that's the ticket.

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