When housing crashed, it was the lack of new asset backed securities that pushed the economy into recession by freezing up the banking system and destroying consumer and small business credit markets.

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Last year, in a bid to generate domestic capital for business activity, the government issued interest-bearing recapitalization bonds to prime the banking system with funds.

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Al Qaeda has changed its business model in response to the U.S. government's success in cutting it off from the banking system and the killing of al Qaeda money men like Mustafa al Yazid and Abdul Ghani.

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