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Crony Capitalism On A Grand Scale

…same Mr. Romney has an op-ed piece complaining that the GM and Chrysler bailouts were “crony capitalism on a grand scale.” The reason for the epithet? That by prior agreement…

Fed’s Once-Secret Data Released to Public

…http://bit.ly/Bloomberg-Fed-Data. For an explanation of the files, see the one labeled “1a Fed Data Roadmap.” The day-by-day, bank-by-bank numbers, culled from about 50,000 transactions the U.S. central bank made through…

Guest post: Who Are the 1%?

…unhesitatingly take billions in bailout money and then turn right around and finance the export of jobs to new locations in China and India. They defraud the pension funds of…

Elizabeth Warren 2009

…and the economy, and we’ll all remain at risk for the next trillion-dollar bailout. Regulating the non-banks hasn’t been tried in any serious way. The CFPA offers a real chance…

Learning To Owe

…while socializing risk.” Representative Clarke concurs that most protestors “are not asking for [a bailout]. They are simply asking for a system that is not rigged against them.” When big…