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Date Added: June 07, 2008 07:16:03 PM

In testimony before the United States Congress House Financial Services Committee at the close of February 2008, United States Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) Chair Ben Bernanke acknowledged for the first time what many in finance, banking, and government policy circles have quietly begun to admit: that the current financial crisis is now spreading rapidly beyond the subprime residential mortgage ...

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