Article: Consumers cite greed as root of bankruptcies.(Business)

Byline: JEFF WRIGHT The Register-Guard

For many folks, there's no mystery to what has spurred the stock market's recent freefall and consumers' crisis of confidence.

`Greed at the CEO level,' says Rich Dohemann, a retiree who worked as a financial officer with Hewlett-Packard Co.

"I feel it's greed," says LeeAnn Thompson, a former business consultant and administrative assistant.

"It's greed," says Bob Schnider, retired after 36 years in banking.

Those views parallel a national survey conducted this month by Barna Research, a California polling firm best known for surveying Americans' religious beliefs. In a telephone survey ...

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