Dean Baker On Fed Bank Bailout

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| Tue Mar. 11, 2008 5:23 PM PDT

In a must-read, Dean Baker explains here how the Federal Reserve may have just handed over hundreds of billions of government money to America's biggest banks. He also examines the reasons this is a bad idea, both the obvious and the non-obvious.

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