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Opinion: Willem Buiter: Treasury Will Have to Abandon Current Approach to Banks 
naked capitalism | by Yves Smith(noreply@blogger.com) | Thu, Apr 16
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There is just one way to make the US government’s policy towards the banks work. That is for the Congress to vote another $1.5 trillion worth of additional TARP money for the banks - $1 trillion to buy the remaining toxic assets off their balance sheets, and $0.5 trillion worth of additional ca...
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