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Bank bailouts: Necessary? Effective?
Fox News 04/14/09 Call it bailout remorse. With economic signs beginning to point upward and banks returning federal rescue funds, analysts are now debating whether the government’s $700 billion bailout... ...
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... ...
G8 warns of hunger threat to stability
The world faces a permanent food crisis and global instability unless countries act now to feed a surging population by doubling agricultural output, a report drafted for ministers of the Group of Eight... ...
Follow the bailout cash
Newsweek by Michael Isikoff and Dina Fine Maron 03/21/09 There was plenty of outrage on Capitol Hill last week over the executive bonuses paid out by AIG after getting federal bailout money. But another... ...
Obama buys time for zombie banks
Christian Science Monitor by staff 02/12/09 Faced with a choice between spending upwards of $4 trillion to save wobbly banks or doing something else, President Obama has decided to do something else.... ...
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... ...
TARP II: Money for Banks, Not Homeowners
Dean Baker, Truthout: "TARP II, the second helping of $350 billion that is supposed to restore the health of our financial system, will soon be dished out by the Obama administration. Ostensibly, much... ...
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?... ...
Treasury Has Pledged More Rescue Funds Than Authorized
Michael Crittenden, The Wall Street Journal: "The Treasury Department has committed nearly $10 billion more than the $350 billion Congress has authorized to date for the financial-sector rescue package,... ...
Education After Neoliberalism
Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux, Truthout: "As the financial meltdown reaches historic proportions, free-market fundamentalism, or neoliberalism as it is called in some quarters, is losing both... ...