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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:58:11 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[An enjoyable book as the author did a great job constructing the narrative and sequencing the events as they unfolded.  I gained some insights into how the CDO mess developed.<br/><br/>I was mildly annoyed however the Jamie Dimon apparently only speaks in exclamation points, which by my tally was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80584979">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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