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Unemployment has skyrocketed, the banks have cranked up credit card interest rates to 29.9% and are feasting on zero interest Federal Reserve money which they use to speculate in the financial markets, paying out well over $100 billion in aggregate in bonuses for the last year.
The question now becomes how to unwind the AIG bailout. The big banks have de-TARPed. The issue of AIG secrecy, however, still remains. But that’s not Geithner’s issue. He wasn’t part of the secrecy; he was part of the solution. (Incidentally, former Treasury man Henry Paulson will join me on T...
Thu, Jan 28 | from National Review Online