At this point governments around the world are grappling with a major financial crisis, no more so than the U.S. Government. At this time, they have presented a Bill before Congress for the transfer of $700 billion taxpayer dollars to purchase the distress assets of several failed financial institutions. This was rejected on Sept. 29 [...]
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