"From the mirage of middle-class life to the slavery of debt"
Alternet
March 24, 2007
By Joshua Holland

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Every day brings news of the potential scope of the emerging "sub-prime" loan scandal - what Robert Kuttner called "deregulation's latest gift" - and new indicators that the housing market that's driven so much of the economy for the past five years is a bubble that's begun to burst right before our eyes.