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The Motley Fool April 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	A House-Poor Quarter for WaMu Just days after announcing plans to raise $7 billion in new capital, slashing its dividend, and rebuffing a preliminary buyout offer from JPMorgan Chase, the Seattle-based savings and loan posts very ugly quarterly earnings.
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