Saturday, 22 March 2008

US Treasury says Feds Bear actions help all investors

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserves actions to lend billions of dollars to prop up and sell off ailing brokerage Bear Stearns will help all Americans by stabilizing capital markets, a senior U.S. Treasury official said.

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Catering to the bailout nation

Heres where building bubbles on top of bubbles has brought us. Instead of letting the market work and creative destruction run its course, too many people want a handout.