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The unrepentant sons-of-bitches who are fighting banking reform

By Mark | September 14, 2009

It’s been one year since the investment bank Lehman Brothers went belly up, putting into motion a chain of events that would culminate in some $600 billion in American taxpayer money being given away to corporations like AIG, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. To commemorate the day, and breath new life into his stalled […]

Posted in Economics, Other, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged AIG, Andrew Cuomo, bailout, Bank of America, banking reform, Capitalism, Capitalism: A Love Story, Corporate Crime, credit, derivitives, financial reform, gambling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs, investment banking, Lehman Brothers, loans, lobbyists, Michael Moore, Obama, other people's money, reckless behavior, Robert Reich, the short attention spans of Americans, unrepentant sons of bitches, Wall Street | 9 Comments

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