<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<oembed>
	<version>1.0</version>
	<type>link</type>
	<objectid>131020</objectid>
	<title><![CDATA[Conservatives Seek To Shift Blame For Crisis Onto Minority Housing Law]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/01/conservatives-seek-to-shi_n_131020.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Blame for the current economic crisis has been laid on many doorsteps, including the <a href="http://banking.senate.gov/conf/">Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999</a>; <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/credit_default_swaps/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">credit default swaps</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund">hedge funds</a>; the <a href="http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/post_140.php?page=all">Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000</a>; <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/159346">Alan Greenspan</a>; and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html">Phil and Wendy Gramm</a>.</p>

<p>But it has fallen to right-wing pundit Ann Coulter to blaze a truly simple path through the maze of credit derivatives, collateralized loan obligations, tranches, securitization transactions, and Thomson Financial League Tables.</p>

<p>This gentle lady </p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-11-01T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
</oembed>
