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    Plan Encourages Main Street to Invest in Toxic Assets

    Bank bailouts with taxpayer money have been a source of populist outrage. In need of public support for the massive spending it wants to stimulate the economy, the Obama Administration wants to establish a way for small investors to get in on the deal, to let Main Street sit at the table with Wall Street. We hear about the benefits and the risks.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Bank bailouts with taxpayer money have been a source of populist outrage. In need of public support for the massive spending it wants to stimulate the economy, the Obama Administration wants to establish a way for small investors to get in on the deal, to let Main Street sit at the table with Wall Street. We hear about the benefits and the risks. Eric Tyson, author of Investing for Dummies, formerly worked as a management consultant to Fortune 500 financial service firms.

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    Behavioral Science and Political Change
    1. 1:34Stocks Continue Rebound on Good News about Banks
    2. 7:47The Behavioral Science behind Obama’s Politics of Change
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Eric Tyson

      financial consultant and syndicated columnist

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    3 of 3
    Behavioral Science and Political Change
    1. 1:34Stocks Continue Rebound on Good News about Banks
    2. 7:47The Behavioral Science behind Obama’s Politics of Change
    3. 43:29Plan Encourages Main Street to Invest in Toxic AssetsYou’re reading this
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