On AlterNet: bail-out

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Bush's Disastrous 'Rescue' of the Finance Industry

Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe. September 18, 2008.

The Bush administration's strategy boiled down to allowing Wall Street to privatize the gains while government socialized the losses.

Corporate America Gets a Bail-out Bonanza

Ralph Nader, Nader.org. April 7, 2008.

Corporations have essentially become the government, and now they're bellying up to the bar.

Bernanke and the Super Nanny-State

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. January 29, 2008.

If a government that protects ordinary people is a "nanny state," then one protecting the super-rich deserves the title of "super nanny state."

Paulsen Plan to Ease the Lending Crisis is Full of Holes

Hale Stewart, The Bonddad Blog. December 10, 2007.

Too little, too late.

Debt Crisis: No Bail-Outs for Loansharks

Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 19, 2007.

The real-estate bubble of recent years, like the stock bubble of the late 1990s, was both caused and fed by widespread malfeasance. Now, those same bad actors want to be rescued by the "nanny state."