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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Bailed Out

Posted by Bill Benzon on 10/21/08 at 03:59 PM

The people who live here (in the Erie Cut/Bergen Arches in Jersey City, two miles from Wall Street) don’t have mortgages. They’ve already bailed out.

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