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Turning a Wall Street Giveaway Into a Rescue for All Americans -- In These Times

Turning a Wall Street Giveaway Into a Rescue for All Americans -- In These Times
[Editor’s note: The following article provides a summary of the complex issues involved in negotiations over how to respond to the credit market crisis. For the sake of simplicity and navigability, it is broken into five separate parts, which you can scroll to individually: 1) The State of Play 2) Leadership Moves 3) Alternatives 4) Likely Outcomes and 5) The Progressive Bottom Line.]

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