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The banks are too powerful and they are ruining the rescue plan
Black Money As the global financial downturn continues and pressure for profits increases on corporations across the world, a small group of lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department is pursuing an aggressive... ...
Revolving door, bailout edition
Mother Jones by Daniel Schulman and Jonathan Stein 04/09/09 Corporati ons hiring departed congressional staffers as lobbyists is a ho-hum practice on K Street. But the stakes are particularly high when... ...
A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wants to have the government lend up to a trillion dollars to hedge funds, private equity, funds and the banks themselves to clear their books... ...
Treasury Presses Ahead With Plan for Toxic Assets
David Cho, The Washington Post: "The Treasury Department will unveil the next step in its financial rescue efforts tomorrow, announcing that it intends to create a government body, called the Public Investment... ...
Budget Gap Grows to $589 Billion
700 Merill Executives Received Bonuses ft.com — Nearly 700 Merrill Lynch executives had cash bonuses of more than $1 million each for last year, New York's top law enforcement official disclosed. Andrew... ...
Obama and the economy: When was he telling truth?
Stimulus, yes; Bank Bailout II, no Huffington Post by Robert Kuttner 02/08/09 Here’s the problem with this whole approach. The government has not been shy about telling banks what to do, but has done... ...
Watchdogs: Government Overpaid for Wall Street Assets
Kevin G. Hall and Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers: "The federal government overpaid by about $78 billion for stock and other troubled assets when it bailed out big banks last year, and it lacks sufficient... ...
Bailout firms have program recipients among their clients
USA Today 01/27/09 All six of the law and accounting firms hired by the Treasury Department to help manage the $700 billion financial bailout have clients who received the federal money, contracting... ...
The reversals of market wisdom
Reason by Jacob Sullum Remember when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned us, back in September, that the economy was about to collapse unless Congress immediately authorized him to spend $700 billion... ...
Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again
Robert Scheer, Truthdig: "Why rush to throw another $350 billion of taxpayer money at the Wall Street bandits and their political cronies who created the biggest financial mess since the Great Depression?... ...