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Subprime Loans Alive And Well 10 Years After Lehman's Collapse

It has been 10 years since Lehman Brothers collapsed in what remains the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. But a decade later, what has become of the risky financial instruments and practices that helped trigger the worst financial crisis in almost a century?

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Francine McKenna (@retheauditors), transparency reporter at MarketWatch, who writes the answer is not much.

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