Financial Bailout

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• Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right—Dude, Where’s My Stimulus?

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 122
  "Recession Special" Grays Papaya, 2 October 2004, Manhattan, NYC Taken by Kenneth M. Kambara Years ago, I once had a conversation with an economist who freely admitted that there was no unified macroeconomic theory.  What works versus what doesn’t work in a particular sociopolitical context is ...
  7 hours ago

• Spending Our Way Into More Debt

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 743
  By Tad DeHaven Huge deficit spending, a supposed stimulus bill, and financial bailouts by the Bush administration failed to stave off a deep recession. President Obama continued his predecessor’s policies with an even bigger stimulus, which helped push the deficit over the unimaginable trillion dollar mark. ...
  15 hours ago

• Geithner: TARP program extended to Oct.

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced Wednesday that the U.S. administration will extend the governments financial bailout program until next fall. In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Geithner said the extension is "necessary to assist American families and stabilize financial markets." ...
  15 hours ago

• Geithner: bailout program extended to October (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  AP - Treasury Secretary Tim read more
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• US extends bailout authority to October 2010 (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AFP - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday extended the authority of a 700-billion-dollar financial bailout to October 2010 even as he noted the program would cost less than expected.
  16 hours ago

• Obama set to extend bank bailout fund

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
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  20 hours ago

• Obama to extend bailout fund (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  Reuters – The Obama administration plans to announce on Wednesday that it intends to extend the life of the $700 billion financial bailout fund until next October, administration officials said on Tuesday. See more here:  (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Obama to extend bailout fund (Reuters)
  1 day ago

• The TARP Three Card Monte

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Good news: the financial bailout part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) looks like it ended up costing about $200 billion less than originally projected ($341 billion). Bad news: the administration seems to think that this has freed up a lot of extra money that they can use for "Stimulus II" for job ...
  1 day ago

• Elizabeth Warren: Balout fundamentallychanged system for the worse

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 472
  A month old, but well worth watching. Elizabeh Waren on the way the financial bail-out fundamentally changed the system to screw us: [H/t Crooks and Liars .]
  4 days ago

• Moral Hazard: Citibanks Dubai Loan Portfolio

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 133
  Marginal Revolutions Alex Tabarrok rightly points out on how the recent bailout of the US financial system has translated to a moral hazard dilemma, as in the recent case of a government protected institution in Citibank "lending" to Dubai. Mr. Tabarrok writes, ``The problem of moral hazard is often written off as ...
  1 week ago

• Obama administration working to allow ‘troubled borrowers’ stay in homes they cannot afford

  
  Bent Corner — Authority: 139
  The Obama administration is trying to help people who cannot afford to pay their mortgage payment to stay in their home. Great!From The Huffington PostUnder the $75 billion Treasury program,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Wall Street Thanksgiving

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 445
  Sadly, average Americans were not invited to the table.
  2 weeks ago

• Stop stimulus, use money to help poor: World’s Communists (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) The financial bailout packages by various governments are not radical enough to pull the world out of the economic downturn, but would only help to enlarge the profit avenues of corporate houses, according to communist leaders from around the world.Over $14 trillion have been given as bailout ...
  2 weeks ago

• Burgess to Geithner: “I thought you should have never been hired”

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  November 20, 2009Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is not a very bright man. He doesn’t seem to understand he was in someone else’s house and they’re not going to tolerate his mouthing off. Must say he has grown a spine since his confirmation hearings.Joint Economic Committee of CongressRep Peter DeFazio (D-OR) ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Naomi Klein & Ryan Grim on FDL Action With Trumka, Stern & Auditing the Fed" (video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 439
  firedoglake, video (04:15): On MSNBC, Ryan Grim and Naomi Klein discuss FDL letter signed by Andy Stern, Richard Trumka, James Galbraith and others which accuses the Fed of "cronyism" and "massive secret bailouts" and calls for them to be audited. Howie P.S.: More Naomi Klein-- "Bush admin created ‘free-fraud ...
  2 weeks ago

• Has the bailout worked?

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 151
  As the Obama administration considers how to approach the next phase of the $700 billion financial bailout, questions are being raised on Capitol Hill about whether it is helping the economy.
  2 weeks ago

• Gotbaum stepping into another high-stress job

  
  Muckety.com - Exploring the paths of power and influence — Authority: 424
  Joshua Gotbaum, recently nominated by President Obama to head the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, has big challenges awaiting him.
  2 weeks ago

• "Rep. DeFazio: Fire "Timmy" Geithner" (with video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 439
  Sam Stein (HuffPo) with video from MSNBC-ED Show (04:27): Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obamas top two economic aides on Wednesday for pursuing a recovery plan skewed too heavily towards Wall Streets favor. The Oregon Democrat told MSNBCs Ed Schultz that he was dismayed with the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Permanent TARP: Too Big to Fail as Permanent Federal Policy

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  A must read piece by Peter Wallison in today’s Wall Street Journal : It’s hard to imagine a worse piece of financial regulatory legislation than the bill Barney Frank and the administration put before the House Financial Services Committee last month. But Sen. Chris Dodd’s effort, introduced last week, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bush: I Went Against My Free-Market Instincts

  
  George's Bottom Line — Authority: 706
  An energized George W. Bush laid out plans for his public policy institute – and appointed its first fellows – at SMU today.
  3 weeks ago

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