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Mortgage bail-out rallies markets
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Financial markets rally as the US government says it is taking over mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in the biggest bailout in US history.
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Comrade Bush
http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/comrade-bush.htmlPicture credit: The White House. President George H. W. Bush carried out what was then biggest single nationalization in history with the Savings and Loan rescue. President George W. Bush has now effectively nationalised even more property than his
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