Eliot's Mess

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked

While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an 'escort' $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators.

Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there's a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush's man Bernanke was using ours. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Palast does some of the best investigative journalism along with the most biting irreverent commentary that can be found, and this is no exception. Spitzer's years of investigations into Bear Sterns for sub-prime fraud seem to amplify the resonance of this story.

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