Financial Bailout: Who's minding the store?

As Congress begins wrestling with the Bush administration's financial industry bailout legislation (and Sen. Christopher Dodd's alternative), perhaps it's worth asking who are these folks who may well be deciding the economic fate of the nation? In this post (which took me about five hours longer to put together than I'd anticipated; hint to Labs: we need to design a tool to do this stuff faster), we take a look at the Senate Banking Committee and the ... Full Story »

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Jeanne Roberts
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by Jeanne Roberts - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a spectacular article which unties all the liaisons members of government may have with the Wall Street firms proposed for rescue under Paulson's plan. If you wonder how your congressmen will vote on this plan, and why, this is a must read, and brings to mind the line about weaving tangled webs when trying to deceive. It might also be something to print and keep on hand for post-bailout review and future voting plans.

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