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Friday, January 30, 2009

“Bad Bank” Is on the Way


“The Obama administration is leaning toward setting up a ‘bad bank’ that would buy toxic loan assets from large troubled banks such as Citigroup in a major new program that would be run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and is likely to cost at least $1 trillion.” (Washington Post, Friday)



“Bad bank” is right.



FEE Timely Classic

“The Free Banking Alternative” by Donald R. Wells and L. S. Scruggs


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.