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To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (467410)	2/9/2021 2:39:11 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540882

The Big short, 2011, about the financial crises that Obama had to deal with. I thought I was losing my mind for a second. It wasn't a book ON Obama, It was ABOUT Obama. It talked a lot about Obama because Obama had to deal with the fall out of the housing crises and bank failures. In that book, Lewis Tells how in 2009 the first time Obama went to meet with the bankers they were scared as hell because they had been involved in so much fraud and irresponsible behavior. And Lewis says Obama told them: " I am here to protect you from the public.