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"Too Big to Fail:" a Bailout Hoax<br>by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH
• CounterpunchUsing the “too big to fail” scare tactic, the government has kept a number of terminally ill Wall Street gamblers on an expensive life-support system that is estimated to cost taxpayers $8.5 trillion, or a burden of $61,600 per tax payer.