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The Good News About the Economy

News   March 24, 2009 at 9:58 am Josh Feit

At least we didn’t privatize social security.


  • BallardSting

    Yet……

  • Trevor

    But hey! Wall Street is excited to get $2 trillion more, without limits on executive pay or profits, to squander on banks’ “toxic assets.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/business/economy/24rollout.html

    “The first-day verdict on the Dow Jones average went in the right direction for Mr. Geithner this time, up nearly 7 percent and 500 points, in contrast to the precipitous slide after Mr. Geithner’s first effort, when his inability to explain in any detail how the program would work left Wall Street jittery about whether the administration had a workable plan.”

  • Trevor

    But hey! Wall Street is excited to get $2 trillion more, without limits on executive pay or profits, to squander on banks’ “toxic assets.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/business/economy/24rollout.html

    “The first-day verdict on the Dow Jones average went in the right direction for Mr. Geithner this time, up nearly 7 percent and 500 points, in contrast to the precipitous slide after Mr. Geithner’s first effort, when his inability to explain in any detail how the program would work left Wall Street jittery about whether the administration had a workable plan.”

  • BallardSting

    Yet……