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BIG BANKS GOBBLING UP $33B A DAY IN FED HANDOUTS
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Big Wall Street firms are taking advantage of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented offer to secure emergency loans, the central bank reported. Those firms averaged $32.9 billion in daily borrowing over the past week from the new lending facility...
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At Least Someone on Wall Street Is Thinking About Horticulture
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/03/at_least_someone_on_wal...FINANCE Wall Street banks are "eating up" $32.9 billion a day in emergency loans from the Fed. Yum! [NYP] Seventy-five-year-old Julian Robertson is "one Wall Street titan with strong convictions about horticulture." [Fortune]
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