Archive: Dana Milbank

Buddy, Can You Spare a Billion?

Meet Alan Schwartz, welfare recipient. As the chief executive of Bear Stearns, he's getting rather more public assistance than your typical welfare mom -- specifically, $30 billion in federal loan guarantees to help J.P. Morgan Chase take over his firm. But then, Schwartz has had rather more than his share...

By washingtonpost.com | April 4, 2008; 07:03 AM ET | Comments (3)

The Rest: Sketch Discussion Highlights

The following are excerpts from Thursday's chat. Read the whole transcript. _______________________ Denver: Are we watching the end of the "Roaring '20s? washingtonpost.com: Belatedly, the Bad-News Bearer (Post, April 3) Dana Milbank: There is certainly an end-of-days feel to the hearing today, and the one yesterday. When you hear Bernanke...

By washingtonpost.com | April 4, 2008; 06:56 AM ET | Comments (0)

 

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