February 10, 2012

This $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement Is Huge

Jim Cramer, TheStreet

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NEW YORK (RealMoney) -- Most efforts to solve the housing glut have led to naught, largely because the banks and state and federal governments have been have so antagonistic to each other.

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