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"Wall Street has ended a volatile session sharply higher after a
stunning late-session turnaround that sent the Dow Jones industrials up
about 400 points. The big comeback followed a report that the federal
government may create an entity that will take over banks' bad debt."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080918/wall_street.html

Hey Feds....I have some bad revolving debt that's affecting my credit score.  Can I just shuffle it off to the taxpayers, too?

Despicable.


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It pushes the total cost of corporate socialism to over 1 trillion.

Congress will throw us another bone in a second economic stimulus.

They are comparing it to the depression but government is acting on it this time.

Crazy times.

Its out of control:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-wed_oilsep17,0,4833605.story

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