Better brush up on your Sun Tzu and Machiavelli if you want to survive in this investment climate, because now we know what rules they are playing by.

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Jeez. I wrote the following this morning, but I thought I was months ahead, not hours, and who knew they would use US tax dollars to bail out foreign banks? That is a surprise, but they don’t call it the international banking cartel for nothing.

I wrote: “The plan is to have the government take banks’ bad mortgage debt (will they add credit card, auto, student and corporate debt?)…”

Now I find this on Bloomberg this evening:

U.S. Treasury Widens Scope of Bad-Debt Plan Beyond Mortgages

By Dawn Kopecki

Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The Bush administration widened the scope of its $700 billion plan to avert a financial meltdown by including assets other than mortgage-related securities.

The U.S. Treasury submitted revised guidance to Congress on its plan, referring to its proposal to purchase so-called troubled assets, a change from its original plan for investments tied to home loans, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg News and confirmed by a congressional aide.

The change suggests the inclusion of instruments such as car and student loans, credit-card debt and any other troubled asset.

Firms that are headquartered outside the U.S. will now be eligible, in another change from the guidance sent to Congress yesterday, according to the document. The size of the plan remains unchanged.

“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”

Julius Caesar

They have long since crossed the Rubicon, and are playing winner take all.  Who know our bankers were such good students of history?

I can already hear the pro-Obama suckers saying, “what can you expect from the Bush administration and the Republicans? They are such fascists, always ready with a handout for their wealthy buddies.”

Well, take a look at Obama’s top donors and see if it isn’t a bunch of bankers who happen to be favoring him over the straw man from Arizona (here, here, and here). Besides, who better to enact a New Deal and get us into a really big war (Wilson, FDR, Johnson) than the Democrat wing of the ruling party?

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