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Low Road Capitalism, Mortgage Bonds and Slavery

LewisBraham
in Other Investing
For those who haven't read it already, this is a great article that helps explain why our financial/economic system is the way it is today. It's worth reading for the connection to mortgage-backed bonds alone: https://nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html

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  • carew388carew388
    +1 This is the second time I have read this, and the greed/horror is just as visceral as in my first reading. Glad to see that the project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones received tenure at Howard University and brought along $20 million in funding after UNC jerked her around !
  • MarkMark
    This is a great article, almost hard to stomach.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    Agree...
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