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Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.

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Michael Lewis
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: October 15
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