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Wall Street Bailout Earned the Government a Cool Two-Year 8.2% Return on...

Remember how we wasted hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out Wall Street?  Um, not so much: The government’s Wall Street bailout has “provided taxpayers with higher returns than they could have...

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Debt Ceiling Incredulity

Ezra Klein is conducting a debate with a couple of people (including Jon Chait) who argue that the president should set aside the debt limit as an unConstitutional limit on the authority of the...

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Remember, These Guys Want To Invest YOUR Money

FrumForum passes along a link to a very interesting Financial Times article: John Paulson, the hedge fund manager famous for making billions from bets that securities backed by subprime mortgages would...

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Cory Booker: Wall Street Shill or Not?

I wasn’t going to comment on the story of Cory Booker stomping all over Barack Obama’s campaign strategy and practically throwing the election to the Republicans so let’s all just go home now (because...

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Voting Against Their Interests

Interesting hypothesis: One of the most robust findings in social psychology is that people find ways to believe whatever they want to believe. And the left really want to believe the duping...

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Yet Another Great Wall Street Bet

Looks like all that largesse directed toward Republicans this year is going to bite them in the ass: John Carney reports that Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who previously helped establish the...

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Okay, I Give In: Let’s Talk About Obama’s Wall Street Cash

I’ve had two false starts on writing this post because I feel like the issue of the propriety of Barack Obama accepting speaking fees to give speeches to Wall Street is low stakes and I can’t summon up...

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Thanks, WaPo!

I do get down on the state of journalism these days, but they do sometimes provide useful information. Such as, for example, providing me with a handy list of people to whom I’ll never donate a dime...

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