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Monday, September 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Bailout follows the 10 normal principles for how our government functions

The transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars to Wall Street is anything but "extraordinary."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, September 29, 2008 11:29 AM

    Too big and snowballing!

    Glen, commendable, spot on analysis of the real issues. "If you were running a large financial services corporation whose failure would jeopardize many other companies,..." Herein, it seems you're pointing to my thesis that it's the allowing ever-enlarging Citicorps, AIG's, snowballs. They simply become too large and powerful to fail and would surely take the world's economy down with them as their enablers (lobyists and Congress) meant it to be.

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