By Denis Campbell
“Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!” and the dice cubes fly.
John McCain loves craps. It is routine for him to wager and lose $25,000 in a session as to play the “suspend the campaign and return to Washington to save the Bailout” gambit or petulantly select an unknown for Vice President as [...]
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McCain’s Gambling Past Rolls Craps
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Go Ahead Spend It, We’ll Print More
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by Denis Campbell
In a stunning deregulation reversal, President Bush in a one-minute statement before retreating back into his sealed White House bunker, called for the creation of a massive $700 billion dollar toxic mortgage bailout RTC-like organisation to allow ‘business as usual’ for his Wall Street, white tie base. When you can print your own [...]
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