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During his second year in the House, he wrote—himself, with no staff assistance—a bill embodying the old People’s Party dream of intensified government regulation of railroads, by giving the government authority over the issuance of new securities by the railroads. Happening, by chance, to see the bill, Louis D. Brandeis, then one of President Wils
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Thomas F. Hornbein • Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
Thanks in part to those conflicts of interest and lack of competition that Senator Shelby had talked about, along with a good helping of old-fashioned greed, the credit rating agencies had assigned AAA ratings (even safer than Enron’s rating) to billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities that should have been labeled “junk.” If “tricking an
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The German magazine Stern also sent a reporter (Ve haf vays of making you give an interview). Stern is responsible for the current drama involving the real-life ‘M’, whose son figured in a drug case. Stern decided to reveal M’s identity in defiance of a British government ‘D’ Notice, which forbade publication under the Official Secrets Act. English
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