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Posted Oct 21, 2009 by Tom Jackson
Updated Oct 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Despite the all caterwauling and finger-pointing from the left, it wasn’t Wall Street deregulation or sneaky derivatives dealers that precipitated the global financial meltdown. Hoover Institute research fellow Peter Schweizer places the responsibility precisely where it belongs in his new book, “Architects of Ruin.” It is an intensely investigated work that confirms most of the worst suspicions conservatives and Republicans—many of whom stood on the floors of both houses of Congress yelling, “Stop!”—had about the mortgage steamroller to hell.
Power Line has a revelatory summary from Schweizer himself here.
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