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The hidden truth that could crush the market

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Foreclosure Follies

The Fed can't admit that the potential shocks it's worried about have already materialized, because that would trigger the very panic the central bankers hope to avoid.

But the odds that a financial tsunami will result from Mortgagegate are building each day. If this storm strikes with its full fury , it could be the kind of credit-crisis aftershock that undermines the tentative handhold that the U.S. recovery is so desperately clinging to.

On the surface, the problem looks like foreclosures have been conducted based on improperly processed paperwork. That is a gross understatement.