1.0 link 152547 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/we-werent-punked-there-is_b_152547.html A recent paper by the Minneapolis Federal Reserve has gotten a lot of attention. The paper is titled Facts and Myths About the Financial Crisis of 2008 and it argues there was in fact no credit crisis. Several people have used this paper to argue that Wall Street overstated the severity of the credit crisis in order to get a bail-out they didn't need. What these commentators have failed to heed is this paper was widely criticized within...

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