With everyone keeping an eye on the banking industry and the government's roll in it, it seems like a good time to take a closer look. In the past few weeks banks, investment firms, and even those that insure investments have failed. Some have closed their doors permanently while others have turned to the government so that they can stay open. The government, bailing out these companies, is what has a lot of the population worrying. This is due to the fact that these are not simple bail outs that are in the hundreds of thousands or even the millions, but are in fact in the billions. In fact th...

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