Michael W. Hudson

Center for Public Integrity

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Staff writer with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit journalism organization, and author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis; former staff writer for the Wall Street Journal

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