It is among the smallest of Wall Street firms and has one of the largest exposures to the subprime mortgage mess.

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For the second time in just over three months, the Bush administration signaled Wall Street that it's willing to contain the subprime mortgage mess.

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The subprime mortgage mess and ensuing financial markets collapse led to economic growth rate plummeting and high unemployment levels that led to a steep decline in disposable income levels.

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Every one of Bernanke's appearances before Congress has focused on the general economic outlook, the subprime mortgage mess or fiscal challenges for the United States--often a combination the three issues.

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The subprime mortgage mess.

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Had the Dodd-Frank whistleblower provision been in place earlier, the fraud perpetrated by Bernard Madoff, the rampant subprime mortgage and securitization mess, and BP's alleged manipulation of the propane market, to name but a few events, might have been brought to light far sooner, perhaps preventing their worst effects while earning whistleblowers tens of millions of dollars.

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While many critics feel that real estate agents contributed to the subprime mess by aiding and abetting unscrupulous lenders and mortgage brokers, not many argue that the agents are the best target for reform.

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One is ProPublica, which funds investigative journalism from an endowment given by Herbert and Marion Sandler, the founders of Golden West Financial, a big subprime lender (making it one of the few good things to come out of America's mortgage mess).

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