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Aiemond said:
akuma587 said:

Yeah, well I mean we are faced with two shitty alternatives, let the market correct itself and have everyone in the financial sector shit a brick when mass defaults on loans occur, or try to ease the transition by bailing out a bunch of people who in no way shape or form deserve a bailout (especially the idiots who accepted a variable interest rate and now can't pay).

So either way we are pretty screwed, and will be screwed for several months if not years.

 

 

Well, its not only us, this hurts asia and Europe alot too.

Absolutely, rough waters ahead for the whole world after what many thought was an already unstable year.

 



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