Posts Tagged ‘ bailouts ’

Sounds like our little empire… “At the end of the Third Century, the population of Rome itself was almost one million, with almost 500,000 on welfare. Rome’s corruption from a republic to a police state was assisted by confiscatory taxation and chronic depreciation. Much of it to support a greedy bureaucracy and its clamoring...
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The Congressional Oversight Panel charged with monitoring the T.A.R.P. bailout scheme thinks more bailouts may be needed. In case you’ve forgotten . . . * T.A.R.P. stands for Toxic Asset Relief Program * The T.A.R.P. was supposed to spend $700 billion buying so-called toxic assets from institutions that were supposedly too big to fail,...
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