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A Cook Book for Book Cookers

…to federal contractors to be repaid when the Treasury pays them in exchange for their not billing the government. 7) Ask the big banks for a bailout. What goes around…

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…