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• Im Sorry That Citigroup Exists, Ex-Chief Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  John S. Reed, who helped engineer the merger that created Citigroup more than a decade ago, is apologizing for his role in creating a bank that required a $45 billion government bailout.
  4 days ago

• Senator Seeks to Break Up Banks Too Big to Fail

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont has introduced legislation that would force the Treasury Department to break up all financial institutions whose failure could cause a major disruption to the nations financial system.
  4 days ago

• The Worst Financial Bailout You Haven’t Heard About

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The Washington Post’s Kimberly Kandy has a great piece on the agonizingly inane small business loan program that was attached to the federal stimulus bill. Typically, the Small Business Administration guarantees to banks that make small business loans 75 percent of that loan. Typically, about 10 percent of the ...
  4 days ago

• Bailout Banks’ Bonuses Could Surpass 2008 Levels

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 565
  As further testament to Washington’s strategic use of your hard-earned cash, Reuters staff wrote today: Eight major banks which were at the front of the line for government bailouts have already set aside $117.6 billion this year to pay employees, almost as much as they paid in all of 2008, a Reuters analysis has ...
  1 week ago

• You can kiss $2.3 Billion bye-bye!

  
  Vulcan's Hammer — Authority: 117
  I’m surprised that this didnt get more coverage . Tax dollars just wasted away. Sigh.
  1 week ago

• Frank Leaning Toward Pre-Paying of Bailout Fund

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner got an earful last week from House Democrats wary of the White House proposal to pay for government rescues of Wall Street firms by taxing healthy competitors only after Washington steps in. The critics want companies to pre-pay instead into a kind of sitting insurance fund to be ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Unlikely to Recoup Auto Bailouts, G.A.O. Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  A government report concludes that taxpayers will probably never recoup all - or even close to all - of the $67 billion that the Treasury Department lent to General Motors and Chrysler in the last year to prevent their collapse.
  1 week ago

• Feinberg Says Pay Rules May Cause Some to Leave

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  The Treasury Departments special master for executive pay, acknowledged that his decisions to cut executive compensation could encourage talented employees to leave companies that received tens of billions of dollars in bailout money.
  1 week ago

• More Dems Attack Geithner on Proposed Finance Reforms

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  It’s no mystery that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the ultimate Wall Street insider . But it seems that more and more Democrats are losing their patience with what they perceive as his protectionism of the finance industry at the expense of consumers and taxpayers. The latest to weigh in is Sen. Maria ...
  1 week ago

• Behind the Downfall of Washington Mutual

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  A new report on the demise of Washington Mutual last year showed panic and confusion among its bankers as they futilely tried to save the bank before its collapse.
  1 week ago

• F.D.I.C. Chief Criticizes Financial Reform Plan

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  Sheila C. Bair, a senior banking regulator, found fault on Thursday with central elements of the White Houses latest plan for a new process to unwind large financial companies when their troubles imperil the financial system.
  1 week ago

• Legislators Sharply Question Bailout Proposal

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner on Thursday scrambled to fight off attacks from all sides on a new Obama administration plan for tackling financial risk in the economy unveiled just two days ago.
  1 week ago

• Sherman: Like White House Proposal, House Bill Creates ‘TARP on Steroids’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Different bill; same concerns. House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday granting the White House broad new authority to bail out investment houses and other non-banks when their potential collapse is a threat to the larger financial system. But while the bill goes far beyond a similar White House proposal in ...
  1 week ago

• Feinberg to Stick to Limiting Pay at 7 Companies

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  Kenneth R. Feinberg, the Treasurys pay czar, plans to tell Congress on Wednesday that he does not recommend giving him more authority over executive compensation throughout the financial industry.
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Would Give U.S. New Power to Seize Ailing Firms

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  The Obama administration and the head of an important House committee unveiled legislation on Tuesday to give the government broad new powers to shift the cost of rescues of big, troubled financial institutions from taxpayers to other large companies.
  2 weeks ago

• Sorry banksters, your check just bounced

  
  Public Citizen — Authority: 495
  Several thousand citizens made their voices heard this week in Chicago at the American Bankers Association convention, telling the banksters that enough is enough. We’re sick of them taking trillions of dollars in taxpayer cash and supports while handing out millions in bonuses to their executives. It’s time to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is the Fed the central bank of the U.S. or...?

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 563
  or the central bank for "Hank" Greenberg and Goldman Sachs. Bloomberg is out with a very interesting story that raises a lot of questions that probably will not get answered: "New York Fed’s Secret Choice to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayers" . The first question that comes to mind is why Timothy Geithner Treasury ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mack on the Week Morgan Stanley Fought to Survive

  
  DealBook — Authority: 783
  In a speech to students of the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School, Morgan Stanley chief John J. Mack recounted in his own words how his investment bank was nearly destroyed by the post-Lehman Brothers financial crisis.
  2 weeks ago

• Eight-Figure Couric Demands ‘Humility’ From Seven-Figure Wall Streeters

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  By Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters Dispatch from the Department of Pot-Meet-Kettle . . . Katie Couric has demanded “humility” from Wall Streeters making seven-figure incomes.  This from a woman pulling down . . . eight figures [an estimated $15 million/year ] from CBS while cementing the Evening ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barney Frank On Wall Street Pay Limits

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 717
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  2 weeks ago

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