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Kenneth Lewis gambled on bold acquisitions to build
Bank of America into the nation's largest bank. But
the need for fresh government support to grapple with the newly revealed losses at Merrill Lynch, the brokerage firm he snapped up in a rapid-fire ...
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Bank of America to receive additional $20 billion - ...
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Tell Bank of America: Help Your Workers or
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our petition demanding Bank of America use its bailout to help its workers and boost the economy.
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Bank of America: Stop Payment on the Bailout
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In Congress, It's All About The Committees
DownWithTyranny! —
Most of the work Congress does, gets done in committees. Yesterday I was over the moon when I saw one of Blue America's heroes, Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL), grilling John Bovenzi of the FDIC and, Donald Kohn, vice Chair of the Fed, about the $1.2 trillion that the Bush Regime seems to have given to its pals the banksters. Kohn refused to say where the $1.2 trillion in taxes has gone-- and Grayson wasn't exactly deferential. Instead he related to him the way you'd expect a top drawer attorney to handle a hostile criminal witness-- kind of the way Grayson has been handling war profiteers ...
Bank of America Blows its Bailout Funds on Execs and Jets...
Brilliant at Breakfast —
From our friends at Brave New Films: These people need to be put in jail. Bailing them out without regulations in place was a mistake. c/p RIPCoco
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