[lbo-talk] Credit crunch a myth?

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Thu Jan 1 09:15:23 PST 2009


Was the 'Credit Crunch' a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam?

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Posted on December 29, 2008

There is something approaching a consensus that the Paulson Plan -- also known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP -- was a boondoggle of an intervention that's flailed from one approach to the next, with little oversight and less effect on the financial meltdown.

But perhaps even more troubling than the ad hoc nature of its implementation is the suspicion that has recently emerged that TARP -- hundreds of billions of dollars worth so far -- was sold to Congress and the public based on a Big Lie...

Full article at <http://www.alternet.org/story/115768/>



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