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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont wants to know why the Federal Reserve spent billions of dollars helping foreign-based automakers during the financial crisis two years ago.

Last week, the Fed released pages and pages of records on its activities during late 2008 and 2009 as the crisis in financial markets gathered steam and credit was frozen. Those records show that the Fed spent nearly $5 billion buying commercial paper -- unsecured, short-term loans usually used by companies to cover accounts receivable, inventories and payroll -- from Mitsubishi and Toyota. The loans matured and were due, typically, in three months.

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