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To: RetiredNow who wrote (255695)	6/20/2010 11:05:26 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

"In short, our country's government leaders no longer believe in free markets and the free market's ability to wash out the excesses of too much risk taking. Do you believe in free markets? Totally free markets in exotic shadow bank instruments almost killed the global economy! Simple bumper sticker platitudes aren't the answer. The shadow banking system makes bets with $500+ TRILLION of ginned up, leveraged figures that only become real money when called. It STILL looms as a threat to the world economy.