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Bear Stearns: "Too interlinked to fail"

At a Senate hearing, Bernanke concedes the truth: "We bailed out the markets."
Andrew Leonard

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  • Thursday, April 3, 2008 11:12 PM

    Wall Street Welfare Queens

    "Ben Bernanke's comment, later in the session, "If you want to say we bailed out the market in general, I guess that's true. But we felt that was necessary, in the interest of the American economy."

    Looks like the folks on wall street have figured out how to milk the government with orchestrated failures.

    If we don't pay them, they'll just come around and rob us in person.

    —AmazingRuss Read AmazingRuss's other letters

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