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It turned out we were looking for answers in the wrong place. Instead of studying the immigration bill in Congress, we should have been worrying about Wall Street .

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Wogan, P. (2017). Crash Warning. In: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7_14

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