Posted by Jerome a Paris
The bailout of Freddie and Fannie has just been announced by Hank Paulson, with supporting words from Bernanke. What’s interesting in what’s proposed, as usual, is what’s unsaid. This would seem to be an incredibly ambitious gambit: a nationalisation, an attempted bailout of ALL the banks, and an open-ended commitment of taxpayer money to save the financial world. More
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