On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
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>> The local banker, good or bad, was at least a human being. The
>> "mortgage banker" is a 21st-century monstrosity.
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> Scratch a Trotskyist and find a petit bourgeois sentimentalist?
You and a lot of others have said a lot about the responsibility of securitization for the current imbroglio. All petit bourgeois sentimentalists? Innumerable people have cursed a banker for foreclosing on the mortgage. Before just now, have you ever heard of someone cursing the banker for granting the mortgage in the first place?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos