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We could have skipped AIG, Fannie, Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and the structured deals of Merrill and Bear-Stearns---and some other money to other banks. We could have skipped the Fed backing the money market accounts and buying Treasuries. WHAT do you suppose would have happened? Dow 10,000 faster?

Instead of comparing the USA to China, perhaps we could do with a few articles on the evils of our political habit of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses in America.

Muser of NM @ Oct 15, 2009 21:20:03 PM

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