Three Questions About the Financial Bailout Plan – Roll Call

Three Questions About the Financial Bailout Plan

By Madison Powers and CQ Guest Columnist

Posted September 24, 2008 at 12:00am

another 700 billion
excess and greed
Associated Press reported
New York Times story
blame deregulation
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Glass-Steagall Act
notes
Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears on Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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