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Economy Tops Business News in ’08
Posted on December 27th, 2008 No commentsBooks will be written about what happened to the economy in 2008. The housing slump dragged on. Worries about mortgage-backed securities and other debt infected Wall Street, sending the stock market into a free fall. Mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the federal government. Weakened banks failed or merged. Read more about the top business story of the year in theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel.