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Policy Peril Segment 9: Big Business

Today’s excerpt from CEI’s film, Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself, rebuts the argument that regulatory climate policies can’t be bad for the economy because so many big businesses support them.

This is an odd argument coming from people who are usually suspicious of big business, or even hostile to corporations. When did they decide that corporate support is some kind of good-housekeeping seal of approval?

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Enron-like Fraud by Government in Bailouts

The federal government is perpetrating Enron-style fraud against investors in its bailouts of Merrill Lynch and Freddie Mac.

The Treasury Secretary and Chairman of the Federal Reserve forced the CEO of Bank of America to merge his bank with failing Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch — and pressured him to keep the resulting losses secret, violating investors’ rights under the securities laws.

“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and former Treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. threatened to remove the…

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