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There is still a lot of confusion about how we got into the current financial mess. Yet if we do not understand the problem, how can we ever hope to fix it? This Wednesday following the 8:00 AM news I will be on WSAU radio<\/a> to discuss what really happened\u00a0 in 2008 and how most of the politicians in both parties did not really understand it, and how as a result their fixes only further compounded the problem. \u00a0You can listen live here<\/a>.\u00a0 \ufeffIf you can\u2019t listen, you can find this in chapter 10 of the paperback version of Preserving Democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is still a lot of confusion about how we got into the current financial mess. Yet if we do not understand the problem, how can we ever hope to fix it? This Wednesday following the 8:00 AM news I will be on WSAU radio to discuss what really happened\u00a0 in 2008 and how most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[57,515,684,1241,1394],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-policy","category-economy","tag-57","tag-financial-meltdown","tag-interveiw","tag-tarp","tag-wsau"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat caused the financial meltdown in 2008? - Politics and Religion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-caused-the-financial-meltdown-in-2008\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What caused the financial meltdown in 2008? - Politics and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is still a lot of confusion about how we got into the current financial mess. 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