| (irrational Gambling on) Stock Market (employers and employees) |
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| All governments that failed to properly regulate their banking industries. |
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| All the Regulators who were asleep on the job |
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| All the people who lent money to people who could no repay debt also managers with big bonuses and inflated earnings |
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| All those who support and encourage a capitalist society |
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| American Sub Prime Mortgage Market |
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| American mortgage lenders |
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| Bank of England |
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| Bank of England, FSA and US equivalents |
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| Banking Speculators |
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| Banking industry - giving temselves illegal bonuses for corrupt actions |
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| Banks |
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| Bernanke |
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| Bill Clinton |
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| Bill Clinton started it, by changing the rules for assessing banks own credit ratings. |
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| Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, The Fed, Alan Greenspan, |
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| Bill Clinton, he forced through laws to make banks lend to subprime borrowers in the US |
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| Blair |
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| Borrowers and the public in general |
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| British Media, Radio 4s Today programme, US TV and radio talking down our ecomonies |
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| Building societes |
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| Central banks |
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| City risk-takers, those who gave the biggest bonuses to the biggest risk takers, and those who speculated on the developing financial crisis |
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| Clinton - loosened regulation so all this could happen |
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| Clinton changing the law on banks |
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| Corporate Greed of companies, and over opinionated people |
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| Credit rating agencies in US and UK |
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| Criminal elite who exploit financial products and investments +financial gamblers |
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| Daily Mail |
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| Economists and organisations such as IMF, World Bank etc |
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| Estate Agents, Fred Goodwin |
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| Estate Agents,Financial service advisors. |
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| Everybody involved in the monetary system. |
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| Everyone who became greedy in the housing market. Finance companies handling any share related products and mortgages |
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| Everyone who got caught up in a spiral of profligacy they thought couldn't end - Governments, Institutions and individuals |
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| Everyone who uses credit |
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| FSA |
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| FSA & Bank of England |
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| FSA and other nations' counterparts |
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| FSA, Bank of England |
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| FSA, Bank of England, Ratings Companies..... |
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| FSA, Fed, ECB |
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| FSA, MPC of the BoE, Alan Greenspan |
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| Fat Cats of the banking world |
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| Federal Reserve |
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| Federal Reserve Bank (Alan Greenspan) & Bank of England (Mervin King) |
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| Finance & Credit companies, estate agencies, shops! |
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| Financial Regulators |
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| Financial Services Authority. Labour Party. Hedge Funds |
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| Financial Services Regulator |
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| Financial market makers who exploit the markets |
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| Financial regulators |
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| Financial regulators, Chinese government, Consumers in the USA and UK, Other governments in the more developed world |
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| Financial speculators |
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| Globalisation & business in general |
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| Greedy Oil markets pushing up the price of a barrel of oil. |
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| Greedy people |
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| Greenspan, Fed, BoE, FSA |
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| Hedge Fund Managers and Stocker brokers |
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| Hedge Funds |
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| Hedge Funds, |
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| Hedge Funds, Day Traders. |
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| Hedge fund managers |
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| Hedge fund managers and speculation by financial groups . |
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| Hedge funds and other speculators/gamblers, like Madoff, building societies wholent to the sort of people who should not be allowed to buy houses |
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| Hedge funds and market speculators |
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| IMF, Israel |
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| Individuals over-borrowing, excessive de-regulation of business and the financial and money markets, international financial institutions, global and national financial regulators |
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| Inflated value of property by estate agents |
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| Influx of ex-soviet & chinese workforce led to overbalance & cheap labour |
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| International Financial Treaty signatories; G8, G10, G20; Government advisors |
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| Islamic Terrorists |
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| It started with Thatcher |
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| Its a combination of many things buy mainly world banks |
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| Journalists; anyone who has been living beyond their means; businesses that were based on borrowing too much |
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| Lenders |
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| Margaret Thatcher Ronald regan for deregulating control over banks |
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| Media |
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| Media & journalistic coverage |
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| Mortgage brokers |
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| Most people in West became too greedy |
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| Newspapers whipped up fears about banks after Bush made a gaffe about Banks on live T.V. |
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| People buying things on credit generally instead of saving for items. |
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| People from the Middle East like Bernard Madoff |
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| People in general demanding everything for little or no cost |
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| People in positions of influence, who through personal greed, encouraged the property price boom |
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| People not being financially aware |
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| People who borrowed more than they could OBVIOUSLY afford to pay back and wrote those debts off with personal bankruptcies and IVAs |
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| People who offer credit on the never never |
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| People who set up unsustainable mortgages in America and fraudulently packages them, directors who took income without taking responsiblilty, fraudulent fbanking firms and fraudulent bankers and the whole sense of greed everywhere without good moral sta |
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| People who used the stock exchanges to gamble hoping to make big bucks for little effort |
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| People who were greedy, Corporate bonuses, lenders, who purchased greedily against mortgages, endownment companies, making lots of faulse promises re profits |
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| Previous governments who allowed lax credit laws through |
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| Public in general |
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| Rating agencies and building societies |
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| Ratings Agencies |
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| Regulators |
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| Regulatory bodies, shareholders, pension funds, the press and TV. |
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| Shareholders as a whole |
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| Some of the media did not keep the public informed of risky bank practices, those who did i.e. Watchdog were ignored |
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| Subprime lenders; FSA. |
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| Super rich |
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| System regulators |
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| TONY BLAIR |
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| The Bank of England and the FSA |
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| The Bank of England, The Federal Reserve |
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| The Democrats for forcing Fannie Mae to give out mortgages to unsuitable borrowers |
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| The Global Elite |
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| The Stockbrokers / Bankers as opposed to the banks in general. The scum who sit around gambling money each day then getting huge bonuses and blowing it. |
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| The US Democratic Party for forcing Fannie May and Eddie Mac to give mortgages to people who could not afford them. |
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| The corrupt American multi-billionaire and greedy bankers. |
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| The failed tripartite banking regulation system |
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| The financial regulators |
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| The general banking and finance system for supplying credit to those who should not have received it |
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| The greedy - so most people, then |
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| The middle men who pushed "impossible to pay mortgages", helped fabricate income statements, all for their own financial gain without any thought of the consequences |
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| The traders on the stock exchanges |
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| The whole wide-boy class of speculators who run our companies |
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| There seems to be a discernible and somewhat sinister and shadowy, faceless consortium of powerful and wealthy establishment members, actively manipulating world events. The Internet points to their ultimate plan for a globalised World Government, in w |
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| Those focusing on trading in company shares rather than industry itself |
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| Those who promote consumerism above all else. |
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| Those who sold mortgages to individuals who had no hope of paying them off. Mostly in USA but some in the UK |
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| Those who use credit cards with no intention of paying back what they have borrowed |
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| Tony Blair |
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| Tony Blair, Adam Smith Society, Other thinktanks, New Labour, Institute of directors, Free market fundamentalists |
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| US Democrates |
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| US Federal Reserve |
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| US financial regulators, who allowed piss-poor accounting, and US legislators, who allowed mortgage lending practices that would be criminal here. |
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| World Trade Organization |
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| World policies in the 1980's |
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| a mix of people getting greedy and being unrealistic |
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| a number of inputs contributed |
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| acorn |
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| all big business and invividual overstreching themselves |
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| all countries banks |
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| all the greedy corporations that bled Joe Public dry |
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| all those who were only interested in making loads of money for themselves |
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| bank of england |
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| bank regulators |
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| bill clinton |
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| building societies, American mortgage lenders |
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| businesses expanding too quickly builung up debt |
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| capitalism |
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| china |
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| city speculators or whatever you call them the get rich quick kids especially in the stock market |
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| companies always needing to make growth year on year |
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| consumer greed - buying things they don't need with money they don't have |
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| credit card companies |
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| credit card owners |
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| credit companies and the greedy people who use them |
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| derivative traders, hedge fund managers, short sellers |
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| everybody who borrowed money that was more than they could afford |
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| everyone for thinking that cheap money will always be available and for not taking personal responsibility |
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| everyone involved in the promotion of a fiat currency system |
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| finance houses |
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| financial supervisory bodies |
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| financial wizards |
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| foreighn interference |
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| fraudsters in the American stock markets |
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| fsa |
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| fsa and other regulators |
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| global capitalism |
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| global imbalances |
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| governments as a whole |
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| greedy bankers and others unwise borrowers |
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| greedy bankers/big bosses/big cats/people who spent money ,not their own? |
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| greedy financiers |
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| greedy people living beyond their means who borrowed money they couldn't pay back and institutions that lent to those people. |
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| hedge fund IMF |
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| hedge funders, insurance companies |
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| hedge funds |
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| hedge funds, investment funds |
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| individual speculators |
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| individuals who won't take responisibilty for their own debt etc |
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| institutions which provided more than people could afford to borrow |
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| madoff, sir fred whatisname from rbs |
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| materialistic values and greed, by the population and by the banks and other financial institutions. |
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| money traders |
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| mortgage lenders who gave people more than they could realistically repay andsolicitors and estate agents who"talk up" house prices |
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| other countries banks and governments |
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| people who borrowed or lent more than was affordable by the borrower |
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| people who borrowed too much to feed a consumption frenzy |
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| press |
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| property speculators |
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| regulators, rating agencies |
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| regulatory authorities in US and UK |
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| regulatory bodies in Britain and America |
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| small investors selling shares |
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| stock market yuppies |
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| stockmarket traders. estate agents, mortgage agents. THE PUBLIC - we were too greedy |
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| the big bouses at what ever the cost employers |
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| the greedy banking cats and financial whizz kids |
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| the media |
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| tony blair |
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| tony blair spent money as pm, gordon brown used gold reserves,pensions and everyone elses money to fund it, plus they are giving too much money abroad instead of looking after the uk |
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| tony blair with his phoney war which put world prices up |
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| too many buy to let get rich quick fools now want us to bail them out |
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| total greed is to blame by all concerned |
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| traders who gambled to earn big bonuses |
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| while as chancellor should have tightened up regulations |
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| worldwide banking and finance |
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