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Reading Response: The Mansion: A Subprime Parable The Mansion: A Subprime Parable is a piece by Michael Lewis which tells the story of how he moved from an upper middle class house and lifestyle into a very large mansion, only to discover that renting expensive house wasn’t such a good idea. Lewis’s desire to rent an expensive mansion is a very relatable experience. I think it’s safe to say that pretty much everyone would like to be able to buy nicer things than they can afford. It seems like a very natural thought process to evaluate what is currently within my means and to then want something that is a little bit beyond those means. This desire for something that is too expensive is probably scalable to the actual

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