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Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged

 

Published 11/13/2008 by Amit R. Paley at Wash Post In Congress

In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury's massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country's largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer... (link)

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