By "negotiated underwriting," what Bloomberg means is, "local governments just hand the bid over to the bank that tosses enough combined hard and soft money at the right politicians."
December 28, 2011

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Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has a new post out on "How Banks Cheat Taxpayers."

This is certainly an all too familiar refrain:

By "negotiated underwriting," what Bloomberg means is, "local governments just hand the bid over to the bank that tosses enough combined hard and soft money at the right politicians."

Anyways, it's my "must read" recommendation for today, so go check it out.

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