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How you finance Goldman Sach’s profits
Mother Jones by Nomi Prins 07/28/09 Bank holding companies (which all the biggest financial firms now are) come under the regulatory purview of the Fed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,... ...
Where Are They Now? Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In
Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "In May, the US economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9 percent to 9.4 percent. According to official statistics, 14.5 million Americans are... ...
Credit Default Swaps
The Poison in the System By Mike Whitney The question now is whether Congress will pull their heads out of the sand long enough to do the people's work and pass the laws that will re-regulate the system.... ...
Is Geithner's Hedge-Fund Bailout Illegal?
The Geithner Bubble Jacques Attali, L'Express: "In some people's eyes, a miraculous emergence from the crisis is brewing: Through the combined play of the Geithner plan, (which allows investment funds... ...
Geithner's Plan Will Tax Main Street to Make Wall Street Richer
Dean Baker, Truthout: "The new consensus among the experts who missed the housing bubble (EMHB) is that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's plan to subsidize the purchase of junk mortgages and their derivatives... ...
If you’re a little guy, a contract means nothing
TruthDig by Marie Cocco 03/19/09 With due deference to George Orwell, all contracts are equal. But some contracts are more equal than others. Contracts entered into by the hotshots at American International... ...
Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
By Paul Craig Roberts http://information clearinghouse.info/article 22248.htm Restoring our Financial Sovereignty A New Monetary System By Nikki Alexander Today the nation is essentially bankrupt and... ...
The Real AIG Scandal
Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine: "Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back... ...
Hypocritical posturing by Obama over AIG bonuses
OpenMarket.org by Hans Bader In response to public outrage, Obama is belatedly criticizing the millions of dollars in bonuses that AIG, which is being bailed by taxpayers at a cost of $170 billion, is... ...
Financial Reports Show Five Biggest Banks Face Huge Loss Risk
Greg Gordon and Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "America's five largest banks, which already have received $145 billion in taxpayer bailout dollars, still face potentially catastrophic losses from... ...