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Government’s expanding role in finances has new set of risks

Now that the big five investment banks of America have been shut down, sold off or turned into more staid bank holding companies, there is one big risk-taking banker left: the federal government.

The decision this week to put $250 billion in banks in return for shares makes the government a....

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