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No, this is absolutely wrong. The housing crisis happened because people did not appropriately price risk and subprime mortgage bonds with poor underlying mortgages were rated highly and then leveraged 30:1 by banks like GS and BoA. An extra billion dollars in insurance exposure to the greater NY area will not precipitate the another financial crisis.



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