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The real reason we have mega financial institutions is that mega financial institutions pay mega bucks to managers and make mega donations to the campaign coffers of politicians. They also get to put some of those mega-buck managers into key advisory positions in each administration, Republican and Democrat, to ensure that government polices allow them to get even bigger and even richer--and to ensure that when they screw it up, they get rescued at the taxpayers' expense.
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If the Democrats weren't such crooks, here's what they could by Richard Mynick on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:48:02 AM
My sentimentst exactly by Donald Michael Schwartz on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:23:34 PM
The bankiong crisis, its too late. by John Shriver on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:19:55 AM
"Give Us AIG and Keep Shopping"-keep your eyes on the Mall by Robert Singer on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:04:24 PM
Re: Hang On to Your Wallet! by Munich on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:13:11 PM
Hang On to Your Wallet! The Government is About to Rescue U by ladyguru on Friday, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:17:03 PM
I have said before in these pages... by John Sanchez Jr. on Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:54:14 AM
Landlords and moneylenders., by Athair Siochain on Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:40:06 PM

 
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