Bailouts
"Enough!"
In keeping with the pink and white elephant concept, here's a callout via Keith Olbermann regarding the banking and financial institution bailouts:
Not bad. Anybody else got any good video commentaries to add, with other perspectives?
Consider this an extension of the preceding Open Thread.
Hat-tip Lordrag of Delphiforums.
Feeling the Pinch - Roundup of Economic News
Open Thread -- Mo' Money
So where is the money coming from?
$700B - $500B ... these numbers are tossed around like they only exist in some arbitrary spreadsheet somewhere. But in the end our grandchildren will still be paying the bills for these blunders. Seems like the treasury doors have been taken off their hinges and it is a free-for-all ...
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Freddie, Fannie And Friends

The wonderful world of our capitalist society, small c for the few that capitalize!
With trouble brewing inside mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Armen Keteyian reports that the nation is learning more and more about the companies and their friends in high places.
