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"By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity."
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"Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker."
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