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Michael Hudson on Fictictious Capital, Interviewed by Max Keiser
Michael Hudson
01 Aug 2012
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by Michael Hudson

When crooked bankers make loans against non-existent assets there are two names for the practice. One is "investment banking". The other is the f-word, "fraud".

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