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Eric Hovde: “Goldman Sachs was packaging junk mortgage, selling them to…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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BRINGING COMMON SENSE BACK INTO GOVERNMENT WITH ERIC HOVDE

Published | Video Starts at 06:01

Well, because of bad government policies in Wall street that abused the system and you can name the name, obviously Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers failed because of it. Goldman Sachs was packaging junk mortgage, selling them to their clients, but shorting the very stuff they were selling. They were very complicit in it. What happened when the whole system Went down the big giant banks and Wall street got bailed out. And what did they do? (06:01–06:09)

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