Archive for February, 2009

Money Market Accounts Panic

Recently on CSPAN, Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) discussed the reasons for the bank bailout in September.  The CSPAN video below is amazing.  Representative Kanjorski states that on September 18, 2008 there was widespread panic among money market account holders.  Within hours over $550 billion was withdrawn from moeny market funds across the nation.  While the [...]