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Die Suche nach »Troubled Assets Relief« hat 11 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 1 bis 10.

Defense Department, Inc.
CounterPunch by Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes 03/05/10) Preside nt Obama called his $3.8-trillion budget a big step in restoring America’s economic health. Last year he promoted TARP, the Troubled... ...
Reverse Bank Robbery
Dean Baker, The Guardian UK: "Most of us work for a living, the rest are bankers. These days the news is filled with great tales about how America's banks are coming back. Even that giant corpse Citigroup... ...
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... ...
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... ...
What Obama Left Out of the Economic Recovery Plan
Higher Wages and Debt Relief By Mike Whitney Barak Obama and Co. are planning to launch their own version of economic "shock and awe" in the opening weeks of the new administration. Aside from the... ...
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?... ...
The Reckoning: Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk
Eric Dash and Julie Creswell, The New York Times: "Even as the first shock waves of the subprime mortgage crisis hit Bear Stearns in June 2007, Citigroup's top executives expressed few concerns about their... ...
Financial reversals
Reason by Jacob Sullum 11/19/08 Remember when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned us that the economy was about to collapse unless Congress immediately authorized him to spend $700 billion on ‘troubled... ...