Paulson: “I Saved America From a Great Danger”
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, said that “although our responses to the crisis have not been perfect, I believe strongly that they have saved the nation from a wide danger.”
“A lot more Americans would be now without jobs, business, economy and a way to live,” Paulson insisted, who has been accused in numerous occasions that is principal guilty of Lehman Brothers bank collapse occurred in September last year, bankruptcy which led to the widening crisis practically.
Paulson’s Defense comes just on creating a government committee of investigating that intends to observe how the Bush government managed the crisis.
This committee will spend $ 5 million to conduct the investigation and work will be completed by 15 December 2010. In addition to Paulson, in the viewfinder is still and current governor of Fed, Ben Bernanke, who, according to statements of the former CEO of Bank of America, was pressed to take the institution bank Merrill Lynch, even if the BoA was not just a profitable business.