On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:

> What happened? Banks borrowed money from lenders around the world. The
> bankers then kept a big chunk of that money for themselves, calling it
> “management fees” or “performance bonuses.” Once the investments were
> exposed as hopeless, the lenders — ordinary savers, foreign countries,
> other banks, you name it — were repaid with government bailouts.
>
> In effect, the bankers had siphoned off this bailout money in advance,
> years before the government had spent it.
>


Excellent article. I am pleasantly surprised to see this in the NY Times,
but finally a newspaper calls the big scam what it is.
-raghu.


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