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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsBalkin on the Treasury Bailout Plan
By Ed Brayton
Jack Balkin has the same misgivings about the provision in the Bush treasury department's proposal for a $700 billion fund to purchase mortgage assets that I do. It's not the bailout itself, which may or may not be a bad idea, it's the total lack of accountability. Long excerpt below the fold.
Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).
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