Is Goldman Sachs Manipulating the Stock Market? - It Sure Looks Like It

Paul Craig Roberts: Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?

Eliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor who was set-up in a sex scandal to prevent him investigating Wall Street’s financial gangsterism, pointed out on March 17 that the real scandal is the billions of taxpayer dollars paid to the counter-parties of AIG’s financial deals. These payments, Spitzer writes, are “a way to hide an enormous second round of cash to the same group that had received TARP money already.”

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The Bush/Obama bailouts require serious investigation. Were these bailouts necessary, or were they a scam, like “weapons of mass destruction,” used to advance a private agenda behind a wall of fear?

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'Washington Mutual in de etalage'

NEW YORK - De Amerikaanse bank Washington Mutual verkoopt zichzelf aan de hoogste bieder. Het door de kredietcrisis in nood geraakte bedrijf heeft zakenbank Goldman Sachs ingehuurd om de veiling in goede banen te leiden.

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