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15 Things You Need to Know About the Panic of 2008

A crash course in why it happened, how it’s strangling the nation’s finances and how it might work itself out.
1. It all began with cheap money. To prop up ailing economies early in this decade, central banks in the U.S. and Japan kept interest rates unusually low, which encouraged speculation. In the U.S., the Federal […]