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How to solve many problems

…increase. Or how about the Carter Chrystler bailout (not the Obama Chrystler bailout). Ditto. Sometimes the US Federal government buys risky assets. It doesn’t do this for the high returns,…

Following the money

bailout see that as their job.” In her view, the government should be trying to create more reliable customers for those banks by shoring up the fragile finances of the…

…and other conditions

Daily Reckoning provides this quote on the original week of the frantic search for legislation regarding the bailout: Take Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California), a bailout critic. During debate over the…

Limiting executive pay after bailouts

rdan Here is a look at the history of limiting paychecks after a bailout…not such a promising outlook for those wanting to do so. Tax History Project Too Much: The…