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thehopeforamerica.com - 3/12/2009
Banks Investing TARP Money Overseas
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We bailed them out and they send it to China - makes perfect sense
Treasury Attempts to “Blame Dodd” for AIG Bonuses
firedoglake.com - 3/17/2009
Treasury Attempts to “Blame Dodd” for AIG Bonuses
— firedoglake.com — photo by Barrybar In an attempt to get out of the way of the AIG bonus train... wreck, it looks like the designated sin eater is going to be Chris Dodd : The administration official said the Treasury Department did its own legal analysis and ... (more) Treasury Attempts to “Blame Dodd” for AIG Bonuses

Comments vote down Open Left - Front Page found this 3/17/2009found this
Who Stole Our Country, and How are We Going to Get It Back?
firedoglake.com - 3/16/2009
Who Stole Our Country, and How are We Going to Get It Back?
— firedoglake.com — The White House is worried about backlash over AIG's payout of $450 million in bonuses to the... executives in its high flying Financial Services Group, the out-of-control derivatives trading arm that looted the company, destroyed its stock and ... (more) Who Stole Our Country, and How are We Going to Get It Back?

Comments vote down Eschaton found this 3/16/2009found this
90% Tax? Now We Really ARE Screwed
businessinsider.com - 3/20/2009
90% Tax? Now We Really ARE Screwed
— businessinsider.com — The frantic passage of the Populist Rage Tax was a new low in the US government's response... to this crisis. It shows just how likely we are to doom ourselves to a decade or more of misery--by choking our markets, closing our borders, turning our banks ... (more) 90% Tax? Now We Really ARE Screwed

Comments vote down Matthew Yglesias found this 3/20/2009found this
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