Bernanke I’m not sure about.
Paulson was definitely working for a conspiracy involving Goldman Sachs, Obama, Soros, Alan Greenspan, and the usual suspects.
The sudden announcement of the “bailout plan” was a planned October Surprise, whose main purpose was to elect Obama. Bush and McCain were both caught with their pants down and their jaws hanging open.
Which is not to say that there isn’t a MAJOR economic crisis. On that, I think this article is wrong. The subprime crisis was real, and the derivatives crisis is real. The habit of everyone borrowing above his head is real. The coming depression is real. Only those responsible were mostly Democrats: Clinton, Democrat congresscritters, and Democrats in the Fed and at the Treasury. And Bush, of course, who presided over a series of fatal errors—or maybe on purposes—without really noticing what was happening.
It looks as if appointing Paulson was an even worse mistake than keeping on George Tenet.
Could you fix the punctuation in the headline? FR’s software doesn’t seem to take kindly to cut and pasted punctuation these days...