Patrick J. Buchanan. Suicide of a superpower (№ 353630)

"If the money is not allocated, the infection will collapse," - said the President of the United States of America. The phrase sounded in the conference room. In September 2008, Bush met with the congressional leadership in order to convince recalcitrant Republicans to agree on the allocation of 700 billion dollars to save the American banks from the panic that threatened to arise when the Minister of Finance Henry Paulson admitted the collapse of the investment Bank "Lehman brothers". Under the "infection" Bush was referring to the global financial system.