“I know that a politician is just another pezzonovante.”
July 19, 2009
It was an offer they couldn’t refuse:
The chief executives of the nine largest banks in the United States trooped into a gilded conference room at the Treasury Department at 3 p.m. Monday. To their astonishment, they were each handed a one-page document that said they agreed to sell shares to the government, then Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said they must sign it before they left.
And when the CEOs began to object, Paulson’s consigliere explained that it was ‘in their best interest’ not to protest too much …
I don’t seem to recall The Godfather having a cat, though.
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