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CRIME IN THE SUITES I wrote about this and, guess what? I was not whistling Dixie. Financial Times: ‘Tarp cop’ launches probes into bail-out fraud US authorities have launched “more than a dozen criminal investigations” into possible fraud involving bank bail-out funds, the special inspector-general for the troubled assets relief programme told Congress on Tuesday. [...]
It was a matter of time. Just as Paul Krugman’s critique of Obamanomics seems more persuasive, he becomes the target of a media attack, in this case from Newsweek, a magazine owned by the Washington Post, the major competitor of the NY Times: Felix Salman: Newsweek’s Fearful Krugman Profile Evan Thomas has a profile of [...]
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