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Who’s to blame if the toaster you bought last week explodes, even as you try to crisp that square of baked flour? Did you, as the customer, make a wrong choice buying a top branded product, or is the producer of the toaster to blame?
Elizabeth Warren, Harvard professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, the commission overseeing the disbursement of bailout funds, asked the same question of a financial product—Why is it possible to “refinance a home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five chance of putting your family out on the street…, and the mortgage won’t even carry a disclosure of that fact”?