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Uncloaking the Fed's Bailout
(www.motherjones.com)
In a major victory for the business press and anyone who longs for more transparency at the Federal Reserve, a federal judge in New York ruled on Tuesday that the Fed must fork over financial rescue... More
Submitted 6 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Bailed-out banks make huge profits
(therealnews.com)
Goldman Sachs announces massive quarterly profits, despite taking billions of dollars in bailout cash last year. Faisal Islam reports on the boom of banking giants regardless of the recession.
Submitted 7 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
The Next Big Bailout Bamboozle
(www.motherjones.com)
One of the main watchdogs over the government's $13 billion financial bailout, the Congressional Oversight Panel, released its monthly report for July today, bringing some much needed scrutiny to the... More
Submitted 8 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Treasury's Transparency Two-Step
(www.motherjones.com)
Is Treasury not getting the message? When it comes to administering TARP, the agency has been warned again and again about its lack of transparency by the three government watchdogs monitoring the... More
Submitted 8 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Budget Good, Bailout Bad
(tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
President Barack Obama rolled out his highly anticipated federal budget proposal on Thursday, and while the plan represents a dramatic departure from the priorities of the Bush administration, its... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Geithner's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Bailout Economy NewsLadder
(tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
In this week's Audit, we're examining Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's thoroughly uninspiring bank bailout plan, which fails on almost every level. What's more, some of the most insightful (and... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Obama's Better Bailout
(www.thenation.com)
Only a week into the new administration, and yet there is this nagging thought that Barack Obama's legacy already hangs in the balance. Sounds absurd, I know, given the brief time, but his early... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Weekly Audit: Obama's Stimulus Plan Signals End of Era
(tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Since the U.S. is officially in a recession, and the Congressional Budget Office has predicted the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, just about everybody acknowledges that times are... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Obama Threatens to Use Veto Against Bailout Dissent
(www.truthdig.com)
Barack Obama made sure that anyone who might oppose his plan for rolling out the next part of the $750 billion bailout package understands that he means business:
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
More Cash for the Banks..... or the Economy Crashes? (www.economicpopulist.org)
Banks have received $200 billion in fresh capital from the Treasury since last fall and have borrowed hundreds of billions of dollars more from the Fed. But in the meantime, the economy fell into a... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
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