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susiemadrak.com - 10/28/2008
Banks to Use Bailout Bucks for Mergers
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Go read the rest: The Treasury Department’s capital injection program is well underway, with more than $150 billion total now promised to around 30 banks. So far, the evidence suggests many of those banks will use the cash to buy up weaker banks. That’s not how the program was sold. Banks ...

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"Don't you ever leave off?"
The Sideshow — ... interpret the man's work; most people have a pretty limited understanding of who is watching and how they view any particular type of pornography, especially a type of porn that is not to their own tastes. And you'd be surprised how many are squicked by supposedly "acceptable" sexual practices. (And some things just seem funny until someone actually tries to get you to deal with them in bed.) We wish to apologize for missing this story earlier. "Yes, let's give the banks free money with no strings!" "Bedazzled"

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