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How Hardball Resembles Laurel and Hardy

Bob Somerby-The Daily Howler The loud dumb fellow got it wrong. His pals were too timid to tell him: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009 How Hardball’s like Laurel and Hardy: On Monday, ABC News had no idea how marginal tax rates actually work (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 3/4/09). Last night, Chris Matthews loudly ran off the […]

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Where’d The Bailout Money Go? Shhhh, It’s a Secret

WASHINGTON (AP) Dec 22 By MATT APUZZO– It’s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where’s the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation’s largest banks say they can’t track exactly how they’re spending the money or they simply refuse to discuss it. “We’ve […]

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Bill Maher With Ron Paul | Real Time | February 20, 2009

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Banks Keeping Mum on TARP Bailout Funds; Only Morgan Stanley Coming Clean

Morgan Stanley Is One Bank That Cites a Loan From TARP Money Other Financial Banks Including Goldman Sachs and CitiGroup Keep Mum on How They Are Using TARP Cash By CHARLES HERMAN, DAN ARNALL, LAUREN PEARLE and ZUNAIRA ZAKI ABC NEWS Dec. 17, 2008— Banks that were rescued with billions of dollars in public funds […]