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The Plunge Protection Team

Some people foolishly think that Washington’s recent high-profile effort to steer, subsidize and protect the American financial sector is the beginning of something new — a revolutionary development.
It isn’t. Consider that the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets – nicknamed “the Plunge Protection Team” by The Washington Post in 1997 & ndash; quietly [...]