Uploaded September 2009 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago

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While many factors have contributed to our current recession, it was the implosion of the housing market that started the dominoes falling. While many republicans blamed this collapse on irresponsible homebuyers who took out loans they couldn't afford, Leslie Cockburn's new documentary AMERICAN CASINO explains in great detail how blaming the victims only lets the real villains and a failed ideology off the hook.

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