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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Kevin G. Hall / The Bulletin
September 21, 2008
WASHINGTON — For the better part of 15 years, the U.S. economy roared in part because of innovations in finance that vastly expanded credit to people of all walks of life and worked in the background like a computer’s operating software.
Now, that software has been hit by a....