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That's happened with mortgages after the clamping down on banks in the UK. The bailed out banks can't charge interest rates as high as they'd like, so they turn down a lot of less than perfect business. End result is it's harder than ever for normal folk and less reputable banks with far higher charges have stepped in to plug the gap. Idealistic humans never learn anything about economics over time..



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