The Financial Crisis Blame Game
Who and what got us into this financial mess? Here's my far-from-exhaustive list of the guilty
—Justin Fox
None of this would have happened if millions of us hadn't come to believe we could get something for nothing by taking on debts we couldn't repay. That this misconception was fostered by lenders and politicians is a partial excuse but not a complete one. Thanks to the Panic of 2008, though, we can count on nobody making this mistake again, at least not for a while.
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