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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (458865)2/23/2009 4:12:50 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1577469
 
Why didn't these more diversified banks do worse than banks that focused on investment or on ordinary retail banking?

They did.

Why didn't Europe, which never had Glass-Steagal, and which for the most part never had a similar law, not have a catastrophe years ago?

It took American ingenuity to figure out a way to cheat the system. We taught them.
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