George Stephanopoulos outlines the Plunge Protection Team:
“I don’t know if you remember, but in 1998, there was a crisis called the Long Term Capital crisis. It was a major currency trader and there was a global currency crisis. And they, at the guidance of the Fed, all of the banks got together when that started to collapse and propped up the currency markets. And they have plans in place to consider that if the stock markets start to fall.”
Read full article (PDF). To all free market players this is unfortunate news.
