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dkf

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13. Do you understand how market bubbles work?

Reply to me b zola (Reply #11)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 11:27 AM

Dec 2012

Little guys do have the power or at least share the responsibility if they are part of that bubble. How can you help bid up prices irrationally and expect to be untouched? Crazy.

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If no one signed the mortgage contracts there would have not been an action to sue over [View all] RB TexLa Dec 2012 OP

Get your tired old right wing talking points right here! End of year sale! Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #1

If no one engaged the contracts how could they have effected the tax base? RB TexLa Dec 2012 #2

Do you think your argument here is somehow novel? Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #8

If no one had signed the mortgage 'contracts,' elleng Dec 2012 #3

Correct. And a non executed contract couldn't have caused what the counties are suing over. RB TexLa Dec 2012 #4

Something like that, but if 'bank' tried to enforce such non-contracts, elleng Dec 2012 #9

Popcorn...get your popcorn! nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #5

One party to each of those signings is a professional in the mortgage field Fumesucker Dec 2012 #6

I Think You Missed This Part ProfessorGAC Dec 2012 #7

Ah just in time for Christmas! Rex Dec 2012 #10

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! GoneOffShore Dec 2012 #12

I have managed to make my teapartying MIL slightly uncomfortable me b zola Dec 2012 #11

Do you understand how market bubbles work? dkf Dec 2012 #13