September 19, 2008 - Wall Street can't seem to decide whether the market is crumbling or we are having the BEST! YEAR! EVER! Yesterday stocks were tumbling despite bailouts of AIG, Fannie and Freddy, and every other horribly run company in the nation. Today...
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September 17, 2008 - Washington Mutual might be the next bank to fail. Shares of WaMu, the nation's largest savings and loan, fell 27% on Sept. 15, to $2 a share. WaMu has $239 billion in real estate loans, and $53 billion of those are sub-prime. We don't know what that...
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