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Obama Wants to Control the Banks

I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn’t much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street’s black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back?

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The Free Market is Dead

On several occasions of late, I have read or heard the phrase, “We are all Keynesians now,” an erudite way of expressing the idea that the free market is dead. And that the fate of the global economy now relies almost entirely on pragmatic measures yet to be taken by governments, most notably that of the United States.

Given that the word “pragmatic” is often used to describe President Obama, it appears that the man of the hour has arrived just in the nick of time.

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