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An Autopsy Of The Great Recession

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More than 850,000 families lost their homes due to foreclosure in 2008. And when the dust settled from the Great Recession, all signs pointed to a mortgage and investment banking system riddled with fraud. Reveal journalist Aaron Glantz joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how “mortgage products” let so many Americans down. His new book is called, “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream.”