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How the financial bubble burst

The roots of the panic in financial markets around the world are deep and complex but they lie in the convergence of three factors. Millions of people pursuing the "American dream" of home ownership, politicians and regulators who dismantled a system of financial safeguards and then ignored warnings of impending disaster and financial markets and institutions disregarding risk in their headlong pursuit of profit. Let's go back to the beginning - or at least to the year 2000 - when the 'Dotcom' boom went bust.

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