supposedly
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The clearest evidence is that the cuts often failed to protect the very investors the Greenspan put supposedly insured.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026
But when the US housing market took off in the later 1990s and derivatives again were used to package mortgages to sell to investors -- supposedly to dilute the risk -- the Fed sat back.
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
Sticklers will note that “Roughing It” is supposedly nonfiction, but when was Mark Twain ever bound by technicalities, much less facts?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
The Tonopah Historic Mining Park is a big tourist attraction, along with the Clown Motel and other lodging establishments supposedly haunted by the ghosts of dead miners and other paranormal phenomena.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
Why were supposedly sophisticated traders at AIG FP doing this stuff?
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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