Bail me out Bennie
Now that the US Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department have clumsily come to the rescue of the financial titans of Wall Street, it has become politically dangerous to resist similar pleas from just about everybody else. Populism is emerging as a dominant theme is this year’s US elections, and with so much largesse showered on Bear Stearns and JP Mo…
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