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Should the Fed Save Wall Street Firms?

Appeared on March 17, 2008

Joseph Mason, an economist at Drexel University who has studied bailouts, weighs in on the moral hazard problem created by the Federal Reserve's intervention (in the name of market stability) to prop up Bear Stearns on Friday and the Fed's $30 billion loan to support J.P. Morgan Chase's purchase of the firm.