In the blink of an eye, and on three little pages of a standard memo, the US Treasury Department granted the banking industry a $140 billion tax break on top of the $700 billion in taxpayer money being handed over...
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Naomi Klein, author of the best-selling "Shock Doctrine" about capitalist exploitation of disaster for profit, comments on the Wall Street Bailout, the Federal Reserve extending $2 trillion in emergency loans without disclosing recipients or collateral, the Treasury's illegal...
The US Treasury, under cover of the uproar over the Wall Street Bailout, issued a notice in which it claimed authority to overturn Section 382 of the Tax Code, a two-decade old law created to stop mega-conglomerates from using shell companies to hide losses and avoid taxes....