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Calling on Big Banks to Repay Bailout Now

Source: The New York Times
Washington : DC : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Concluding that some of the nation’s biggest banks are in good enough shape to raise capital from private investors, senior Treasury officials would like more of them to repay billions of dollars in taxpayer money that bailed them out over the last year.
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