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using plans provided Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

Jesse's Café Américain Mon 2010-04-19 15:19 EDT

A Modern Tale of Financial Loss

A developer (Goldman) built houses that looking good, but were firetraps, using plans provided by an architect (Paulson). They were sold as being to code with certain characteristics represented and endorsed by the building inspectors (Ratings Agencies).After the sale, the developer and the architect bought huge amounts of fire insurance on the homes from a friendly insurance agent (AIG London)...

Financial Losses; Jesse's Café Américain; modern tales.