The world’s full of bad banks already – banks that did just what Bernanke is proposing to do; they bought financial assets, notably mortgage market derivatives, for cash. Now, they turn to the taxpayer, desperate for a handout to keep them from going under. And the baddest bank of all? Next to the Central Bank of Zimbabwe it’s the U.S. Fed…
January 15th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued


