Pissed off about bank bailouts

If I can get even one other person to switch I'll be a very happy woman! So the top five investment banks got together on April 28th of that year and — with the helpful assistance of then-Goldman Sachs chief and future Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson — made a pitch to George Bush's SEC chief at the time, William Donaldson, himself a former investment banker. There was no way that I, or any growing business, could have put aside that type of rainy day fund. But anyone with an outstanding obligation or a preexisting condition would have been in trouble. Chewing yogurt - say, what now? We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners.

The problem was, none of this was based on reality. Although this technically isn't taxpayer money, it still affects taxpayers directly, because the activities of the Fed impact the economy as a whole. They control our currency, therefore they control us. English Mature content filter: