Don't go wobbly on us now, Ben Bernanke

Barack Obama's home state of Illinois is near the point of fiscal disintegration."The state is in utter crisis," said Representative Suzie Bassi."We are next to bankruptcy. We have a $13bn hole in a $28bn budget."

2010. February 28. 21:45

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