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Brad Sherman: Wall Street wants the $700 billion so bad, they can taste it. To get it, they need two things. First, you create panic.…

On the recordOctober 2, 2008
Wall Street wants the $700 billion so bad, they can taste it. To get it, they need two things. First, you create panic. Then you block alternatives. And then you herd the stampeding cattle toward passing a bad bill.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman critiques the motivations behind the bailout and the tactics used to push it through.

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