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AIG paying millions in bonuses despite bailout »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Despite receiving $170 billion in federal aid and recording a staggering loss for the last quarter, insurance giant American International Group is doling out tens ...
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Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay »
Posted by: beprogress 1 year ago in Political News
A week earlier, 31 GOP Senators, mostly from Southern states, voted to avert their eyes and allow American auto companies to die. They opposed $14 ...
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Grayson Asking Difficult Questions Regarding Bailout Corruption«Counter Economics »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months ago in Political News
Alan Grayson is a new Congressman who is a former practicing attorney who has clerked for the Supreme Court in his younger days. He sits ...
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National Debt Clock Runs Out of Digits »
Posted by: Stringcheese 1 year, 2 months ago in Business & Finance
CNN's Don Lemon visits the National Debt Clock, which has run out of spaces to display $10 trillion in red ink.
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Bush overpaid banks in bailout, watchdog says »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The Congressional Oversight Panel, in a report released Friday, said last year's overpayments amounted to a taxpayer-financed $78 billion subsidy of the firms.
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Note to Senate: Public’s outrage at Wall Street has not abated »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
More than a year after the onset of the financial crisis, three things are apparent: Congress has not passed any financial reform legislation (except for ...
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Top bailed-out firms have money for lobbying »
Posted by: rumple4skin 8 months, 1 week ago in News
WASHINGTON (AP) - The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first ...
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The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
It's over — we're officially, royally ******. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ...
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Why The Big Banks Should Be Broken Up, But Why The White House and Congress Don't Want To »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months ago in Political Opinion
And now there are five -- five Wall Street behemoths, bigger than they were before the Great Meltdown, paying fatter salaries and bonuses to retain their ...
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Sen. Dodd, Rep. Frank Held by ‘Robin Hood’ Gang »
Posted by: truthiness 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Chp. 3: This afternoon Senator Dodd and Representative Barney Frank, two powerful Congressional Democrats in charge of the Finance Committees, were scheduled to hold a ...
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U.S. Plans to Curb Executive Pay for Bailout Recipients »
Posted by: Beau7890 11 months ago in Business & Finance
The Obama administration is expected to impose a cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money, according ...
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Is Talk Cheap? »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 10 months ago in Political News
The Obama administration’s new budget, with deficits that make previous irresponsible deficits look like child’s play, has a cover that says “A New ...
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TARP May Be Profitable For The Government! »
Posted by: amazingprince 4 months, 4 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Wonders will never cease.Recently while announcing that some institutions will be allowed to repay TARP funds, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced that the Fed ...
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Nationalization, By Any Other Name »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 10 months ago in News
The word “nationalization” has put fear and trembling into the American marketplace, and understandably so. It rings of socialism, of the European model, of the ...
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The AIG Bailout Crime »
Posted by: populist 12 months ago in Political News
Why did the Fed get involved with a company whose history of reporting gives its securities questionable worth? Although panic is the term used to ...
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