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Reform, not Rescue… Buy in, not Bail Out.
This is a restructuring, not a rescue. It’s a buy in, not a bailout. Congress and the White House need to realize that this effort’s main goal is the stabilization of the financial markets and the recapitalization of the financial system. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to Wall Street. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages. We’re taking the taxpayers money and correcting an error we should have corrected over five years ago - making the markets more transparent and ensuring that people who benefit from risky deals also assume the downside to those deals when they go bad.
It’s official - we’re screwed….
Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary.com) - Today appearing before the Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke conceded for the first time the U.S. economy may slip into recession, but said growth should pick up later this year as interest rate cuts and other emergency steps take root.
Bernanke said in his testimony that the [...]
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