On Wednesday, political reporters jumped on Mitt Romney's statement that it was George W. Bush, not Barack Obama, who saved the economy in 2008. Why? Because Republican candidates usually do their best to avoid talk of the most recent two-term Republican president altogether.
Jon Stewart tried to keep the tone light in his appraisal of a Bloomberg News report showing that the cost of bank bailout during the financial crisis was much bigger than anyone thought, but there seemed to be palpable outrage when he quipped: "Our government is the world's dumbest loan shark."
A report from the TARP regulator finds regulators bent the rules to let the banks get out
Neil Barofsky was in charge of policing many recipients of government bailouts
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