Seeking a Wall Street solution: Who, ultimately, should pay for bad debt?

Also, U.S. agrees to lend AIG $85B to help keep firm afloat

By Stephen Labaton / The Bulletin
September 17, 2008

WASHINGTON — As the Bush administration has lurched from pillar to post in the financial crisis, some lawmakers and experts are considering a longer-term legislative solution that would create a new agency to dispose of the mortgage-related assets at the core of Wall Street’s....

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