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Old 10-03-2008, 11:25 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Re: Wachovia is no more......

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Originally Posted by geochem1st View Post
Actually Wachovia was doing allright and had enough cash on hand to handle its own bad loans.. what really brought us down was the Golden West Financial merger. All they do is mortgages and when they went south, we now had all of that debt... that was the nail in the coffin.
Was Golden West known for it's sub-prime mortgages or normal ones?
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