^haha no not news...but easier to post this article than encourage people to read Shock Doctrine. That is an encyclopedia of information on this subject but on a global level.
And I would hope we are able to put more checks and balances in our $60 billionh doomsday bailout... 
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
-Thomas Jefferson 1802
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