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• Bank of America to Repay $45 Billion From TARP

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Bank of America said late Wednesday that it would repay the entire $45 billion in bailout money that it received from the government. It said the money would be repaid after it completed a securities offering.
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• (COF) U.S. Treasury Department Sells Capital One Financial Warrants

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 164
  The U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday that it will auction 12.7 million warrants to buy common stock of Capital One Financial ( COF ) on Thursday. This is the latest government effort under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) set up during the height of the financial crisis last year to shore up the ...
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• Easy money: Goldman Sachs execs pocket $55 million in insider sale

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Company News , Economy To get a sense of what Goldman Sachs ( GS ) has pulled off in the last two years, consider: Goldman Sachs was directly responsible for creating, marketing, and trading many of the toxic financial instruments behind the mortgage crisis and resulting recession. The banks ...
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• Banks to Treasury: You Can’t Make Me!

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Theo Francis of Business Week has a smart piece about how the Treasury Dept. might cajole mortgage servicers to more energetically participate in a mortgage modification plan whose original goal was prevent four million foreclosures. The New York Times’ Peter Goodman , among other finance reporters, has ...
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• Geithner: Its too soon to end TARP

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy Tired of TARP? It doesnt sound like its going away just yet. Treasury Secretary Timothy gave Congress a strong signal Wednesday that the governments $700 billion bailout fund will survive beyond its initial expiration date at the end of this year. Moving too soon to end the Troubled Asset ...
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• Geithner Tells Senators TARP Bailout May Soon End

  
  S E N A T U S — Authority: 573
  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner “is affirming the administration’s intent to soon end the $700 billion financial bailout program,” according to the AP . Geithner did not provide details, but says the government is close to the point at which "we can wind down this program" and end it. "Nothing would ...
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• Worrisome Thoughts on the Way to the Jobs Summit

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 641
  Most ideas for creating more jobs assume jobs will return when the economy recovers. So the immediate goal is to accelerate the process. A second stimulus would be helpful, especially directed at state governments that are now mounting an anti-stimulus package (tax increases, job cuts, service...
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• TARP Warrants: Let the Bidding Begin

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 641
  Thursday is a nice milestone in TARP’s history: with the help of Deutsche Bank, Treasury is auctioning off the warrants it received when it invested in Capital One. The company has already paid off the preferred stock that the government purchased last fall, and will now be free from TARP oversight...
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• Treasury to Sell Capital One Warrants (This Should be Fun)

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 145
  Who says the Treasury cant get in on a little Black Friday week action? Washington Business Journa l : The Department of the Treasury will sell the warrants to purchase common stock that it received from Capital One Financial Corp. as part of the government’s $3.6 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ...
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• Selective Deficit Disorder and the Zombie Lie Machine by Dave Sirota

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  As you can see from the quote above, Douthat deliberately equates federal dollars handed to Wall Street insiders with federal dollars supposedly handed to auto unions and public-sector employees. Lets ignore the simple fact that theres a difference between cutting TARP and Federal Reserve bank checks to private banks; ...
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• Real Estate & Mortgage Marketing 1 - Home Loan Modification Dec08 Licensed Attorney to Negotiate

  
  Ethical Foreclosure Fortunes — Authority: 151
  Home Loan Modifications Negotiated by Licensed Attorneys. Real Estate & Mortgage Laws and Guidelines are Complex. Beware of the Banks Loss Mitigation Department. Go To RealEstateMarketingThisWeek.com Part 1 (Excerpt) Why you should use a licensed attorney to negotiate your loan modification Dan Havey thanks for ...
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• MAKE THAT ONE DIP OR TWO?

  
  Progressive Eruptions — Authority: 127
  No, I am not selling ice cream with sprinkles. The term, double dip, refers to a second recession that may collapse an already fragile economy and trigger the second Great Depression. About two weeks ago, I discussed the possibility in this post, The Looming Unemployment Bomb . To recap some key points: When ...
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• MAKE THAT ONE DIP OR TWO?

  
  THE SWASH ZONE — Authority: 426
  No, I am not selling ice cream with sprinkles. The term, double dip, refers to a second recession that may collapse an already fragile economy and trigger the second Great Depression. About two weeks ago, I discussed the possibility in this post, The Looming Unemployment Bomb . To recap some key points: When ...
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• MAKING SENSE (kind of) OF THE BAILOUT & BONUS PAYOUTS

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 128
  Perhaps Americans have simply given up when it comes to being outraged over bonuses and the amount of money given to each failed financial institution. I mean, think about it. Weve gone from being shocked and pissed off 8-12 months ago to making little noise over the fact that failed financial institutions are now ...
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• Bernankes Done Deal Reconfirmation May Not Be A Done Deal After All

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  With everyone expecting the Chairmans reconfirmation process on Thursday to be merely a formality, Senator Bob Corker throws this wrench after he "said he wasnt sure yet whether the chairman had the votes on the Banking committee or in the Senate as a whole." The Hill reports , "I dont know where that sits," Corker ...
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• Automakers report mixed sales results, with GM, Honda, Chrysler slipping

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Honda Motor Co. , Ford Motor Co. , Toyota , General Motors November is a notoriously weak month for auto sales. So its perhaps a bit surprising that several carmakers reported either increased or steady sales last month, despite concerns among analysts and others that last ...
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• GM CEO Fritz Henderson will step down

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: General Motors General Motors is losing its second chief executive this year. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson will resign and be replaced by Ed Whitacre, a member of the Detroit companys board of directors, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Henderson replaced Rick Wagoner in March as the ...
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• Door-To-Door Mortgage Modification

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Chicago Tribune’s Mary Ellen Podmolik has an interesting story about how communities in southwest Chicago uses volunteers to deal with the home foreclosure epidemic. What happened is that upset residents met with Bank of America officials back in July and brokered a deal where volunteers are given the names ...
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• Former FDIC chairman slams TARP

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 561
  Bill Issac, former head of the FDIC, says TARP made bad situation worse : The problems bedeviling banks today could have been a lot less damaging, too, Isaac said, if not for the government’s response, which he said promoted a crisis mentality with public statements and inconsistent policies. Isaac ripped the ...
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• Top 10 real estate posts of the day for 12/1/2009

  
  Hassle Free Phoenix Area Home Search — Authority: 134
  1) Avoid rushing into home ownership for tax credits – Sometimes you need to look outside the real estate world to find good advice on real estate. If you were buying a house anyways the $8000 first-time home buyer tax credit is a good program for you, but don’t buy a house just  because you think the program ...
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