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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Who would be the terrorists? The people who started the rumors about Bear Stearns and started the bank collapse? The hedge funds (or secret society on Wall St.) that control the stock market/housing market/commodities market? Computer programmers who setup automatic trading, so when a stock fell 5% in a day, it started a cascade of selling, nobody was buying a free-falling stock, but more and more price triggers automatically came into play.
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I don't think we have to go down that low on the totem pole. A good start would be the Wall Street executives who moved between the Treasury Department and banks. Those who not only profited from and were instrumental in creating toxic dept but also influenced their non-regulation. Paulson comes to mind but there are probably others.