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It is flat wrong to say we have a credit crunch caused by bank supervisors. Buy how i caused the credit crunch by tetsuya ishikawa isbn. After extensive remedial work, is the global financial system. An insiders story of the financial meltdown by tetsuya ishikawa. Tracing seven years at the forefront of the credit markets, it is both a powerful.
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