A. Pre-view questions: Which, if any, category of Americans do you see as most responsible for the country's current economic woes? Home owners who took out mortgages they couldn't afford? Lenders who authorized those loans? Traders who made money off of bundling, selling (and sometimes betting on the default of) those loans? Poorer Americans? Wealthier Americans? Or some combination of different categories?

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Which, if any, category of Americans do you see as most responsible for the country's current economic woes? Home owners who took out mortgages they couldn't afford?
Lenders who authorized those loans? Traders who made money off of bundling, selling (and sometimes betting on the default of) those loans? Poorer Americans?
Wealthier Americans? Or some combination of different categories?
Transcribed Image Text:A. Pre-view questions: Which, if any, category of Americans do you see as most responsible for the country's current economic woes? Home owners who took out mortgages they couldn't afford? Lenders who authorized those loans? Traders who made money off of bundling, selling (and sometimes betting on the default of) those loans? Poorer Americans? Wealthier Americans? Or some combination of different categories?
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