1.0 link 82639 <![CDATA[Deregulation and the Financial Crisis]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-weissman/deregulation-and-the-fina_b_82639.html It would be nice to write off the current crisis on Wall Street and global financial markets as something that only matters to the investor class.

Unfortunately, the effects are already being felt in lower-income communities around the United States. Worst-case scenarios for what spins out from the U.S. mortgage meltdown are truly frightening -- a severe world recession is a distinct possibility.

Whether such worst-case scenarios can be averted, or softened -- and preventing the recurrence of similar crises in the...

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