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Tansy_Gold

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2. I opened the book at random . . . .
Sun Mar 12, 2023, 02:11 PM
Mar 2023

. . . . to that page. I couldn't not post it. He's referring to the Bear Stearns collapse, March 2008.

The names were listed in the preceding paragraph. "It was an august gathering of Wall Street's most powerful men." All the usual suspects. Dimon. Blankfein. Geithner. Bernanke. Rubin. A few others slightly less familiar, even to us old-timers.

I still remember my rage after Obama appointed Geithner and Summers and Rubin to his transition team, and the shit I took here for it. My opinion never changed.

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