Earlier this year the Treasury Department earned a big fat "F" from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group for the transparency of the $700 billion financial industry bailout. The problem: All we knew about what was happening with taxpayer bailout money, U.S. PIRG said, was "that banks are spending taxpayer money on Super Bowl parties and Vegas junkets, lobbying for more bailout funds and for mergers and acquisitions, instead of making loans."
In its first updated Bailout Report Card, U.S....
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