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The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Barker & Magyer	Who's More to Blame: The Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act or Alan Greenspan? March Madness series: The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act deserves the blame, or maybe it's Alan Greenspan's fault, for making borrowing too cheap.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	The Biggest Cause of the Financial Crisis Based on readers votes, the repealers of the Glass-Steagall act are more to blame than any other culprit for this financial mess we're now in.
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The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	The Blame Bracket: Who's the Worst of Them All? Who's to blame for the financial crisis? Motley Fool takes a look at the contenders in a "March Madness" series over the next few weeks. Here's a list of the finalists.
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The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Smith & Smith	Who's More to Blame: Congress or the Ratings Agencies? U.S. taxpayers have been handed a $700 billion TARP bill and told to bail out banks "too big to fail." Well, it was Congress who let the banks become too big in the first place. Or did the ratings agencies fail to provide in-depth and accurate analyses of the contents of mortgage-stuffed securities?
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