At least international investors in American banks got stock.

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This past winter, when American banks were already scrambling for capital, foreign investors came to their rescue. Last November, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority put $7.5 billion into Citigroup. One month later, Merrill Lynch sold $4.4 billion worth of new stock to Temasek Holdings of Singapore, and Morgan Stanley sold a $5 billion stake to China Investment Corp. In January, Merrill Lynch issued $6.6 billion of preferred stock to Korea Investment Corp. and the Kuwait Investment Authority, among others.
These far-flung buyers had one thing in common: They aren't private concerns. Each is a sovereign wealth fund, investing its national treasury's money -- its citizens' money -- in an effort to help out the hemorrhaging banks of Wall Street.
But these were not charitable outlays. The citizens of Abu Dhabi, Singapore, China, Korea and Kuwait got something in return for their treasuries' aid packages to American finance. They got stock. They got an equity interest in those banks.
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There's no indication that Hank Paulson understands that. He is less Washington's man on Wall Street than he is Wall Street's man in Washington. And having endorsed the Street's version of socialism -- the American public picks up the tab for the financial sector's mistakes, no questions asked -- Paulson and the administration and the Republicans remain opposed to the more democratically socialist, or democratically capitalist, proposition that the public should get something for its investment. China, Singapore and the oil emirates cut a deal for their people. Why won't Hank Paulson cut one for his?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302700.html

"He is less Washington's man on Wall Street than he is Wall Street's man in Washington." That says it all.
He has a personal fortune of $500 million according to news crawl on CNN.