Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his counterparts in Washington are holding fast to their insistence that the government stay out of rescuing another financial firm, even attheperilof another massive meltdown.
States leveraging their cash balance to purchase private property has the potential to quickly metastasize into an ever-more hazardous situation as power and control over enormous influential sectors become consolidated into the hands of actors as a means of reaching political and military goals attheperilofthe West.