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Compounding the Con

Published: February 4, 2009, Author: JayTaber
Compounding the Con

Already Made Off

Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report looks at the futility of the investment bank bailout within the context of the pervasive fraud created by these same institutions. Having financed the private equity leveraged buyouts of corporations that foreclosed any hope of sustainable productivity, the bailout accomplishes nothing but to gild severance packages while the hollowed out economy lays in ruins. The aristocracy and ultra-rich who used these banks to pillage real assets have already made off with the goods.

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