Last Call
There are 21 days to go before the presidential election, and only one more McCain-Obama debate. With time running out, the Op-Ed editors asked a few writers and thinkers to pose the last-minute questions that they have yet to hear the candidates answer.
This week, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the federal government would purchase $250 billion in stock in America’s banks. Won’t the government becoming a major shareholder in banks raise the risk that lending decisions will be based more on politics than economics? What would be your administration’s exit strategy for returning America’s banks to full private ownership?… Seguir leyendo »