by Barry Grey
http://www.wsws.org
27 October 2008
In an unusually frank article published in Saturday’s New York Times, the newspaper’s economic columnist, Joe Nocera, reveals what he calls “the dirty little secret of the banking industry”–namely, that “it has no intention of using the [government bailout] money to make new loans.”
As Nocera explains, the plan announced October 13 by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to hand over $250 billion in taxpayer money to the biggest banks, in exchange for non-voting stock, was never really intended to get them to resume lending to businesses and consumers–the ostensible purpose of the bailout. Its essential aim was to engineer a rapid consolidation of the American banking system by subsidizing a wave of takeovers of smaller financial firms by the most powerful banks.
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see
Wall Street’s Trojan Horse by Michel Chossudovsky
Special Report: War or Peace? The World After the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election By Richard C. Cook
The Not-So-Invisible Hand: How The Plunge Protection Team Killed The Free Market by Ellen Brown
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All I can say is, don’t vote for any congressmen or women who voted for the bailout.