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Friday, October 3, 2008 12:00 AM

The end of the Reagan revolution

The vote to bail out Wall Street marks the demise of deregulation's stranglehold over the American economy
Andrew Leonard

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  • Friday, October 3, 2008 01:59 PM

    RE: Is this law even legal?

    @DrEast

    Congress had sent a Mental Health Parity bill to the Senate which had not picked it up. They just copied the bailout congress scuttled on Monday onto that and added the pork in and...that's how this bill became a law (and why our assholes hurt right now).

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