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And The Sky is Falling, Too

Started by washingtonindependent · 9 months ago

It’s an entirely new financial world out there today — in a single weekend, Wall Street has turned upside down.
As The Washington Post explained, two of the world’s biggest investment banks are basically about to disappear, with Lehman Bros. filing for ban ... Continue reading »

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  • jupitor

    9 months ago

    We can't survive because we put Billions into Iraq these last years! Over nothing at all! Can you immation if we had all that money back from Iraq what we could do now with it to shore up our economy and stop Banks from going belly up! It wasn't only the houseing market1 It was the Iraq war, Ear marks of billions and not working for independence off foreign oil and a lot more this Republican base has done wrong for our country! They say but Dem's been in congress now 20mo, why didn't they stop this? well maybe it's because Republicans threw 77 filibusters against them in 20 mo's an threatended even more! This Buck stops on the Republicans Heads this time, and their is no wiggle room out of it! It's time to face facts here, I jumped the Republican ship several months ago to vote Obama, when Mccain flat out said he didn't know much about the economy. than I knew I did right when he brought Palin into for a Political Stunt!
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