Government steps to head off run on money funds (AP)

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Government steps to head off run on money funds (AP)

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (C) speaks next to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L), and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after their meeting with other congressional leaders in the U.S. Capitol in Washington September 18, 2008. (Mitch Dumke/Reuters)AP – The federal government on Friday stepped in to bolster the teetering $3 trillion money-market mutual fund industry and stem a wave of withdrawals that resembled a Depression-era run on the banks

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