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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Making Sense of the Foreclosure Crisis

Updated: October 15 2009,
Author: barrel fan
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Budgeting, Economic Institutions, Roles of Government
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Paul Solman speaks with an author about how a decades-long government push to expand home ownership exacerbated the foreclosure crisis.

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