4. Exactly, why a loan to AIG... the US should sell off the assets
Edited on Tue Sep-16-08 10:50 PM by JCMach1
once the crises is over... Easy to do, our country will own 79%... Oh wait, it's the old bait and switch... it's actually the FEDERAL RESERVE that will own 79% stake.
5. The anti-trust laws are just fine as they are. The problem is, everyone is ignoring them
Which is the same situation all over the place in this GOP world. Corruption and wild sex parties on the taxpayer's dime is also against the law, but you don't see anyone being hauled away in handcuffs for engaging in those activities either.
6. That's the 85,000,000,000 lb gorilla, isn't it?
These institutions manage a tremendous amount of wealth and have a correspondingly large influence on regulation and government affairs. Since the end of the Depression there haven't been any financial crises big enough to warrant busting up the biggest banks into smaller ones. Also, no one enforces anti-trust anymore.
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