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Geithner plan: Another subsidy for the rich?
Our Future by Isaiah J. Poole 04/23/09 The Obama administration this week got a warning shot across its bow against structuring a bank resuce plan that would amount to yet another taxpayer subsidy of... ...
Bank of America Pressured to Complete Merger With Merrill Lynch
Tomoeh Murakami Tse and David Cho, The Washington Post: "The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department put considerable pressure on Bank of America to go through with its proposed merger with Merrill... ...
Bailout bandits
In These Times by Joel Bleifuss 04/16/09 In these days of ‘bank stabilization plans’ (bailouts for fat cats) and ‘overseas contingency operations’ (wars), Americans who celebrated President Obama’s victory... ...
Wall Street Digs In
Michael Hirsh, Newsweek: "Not long ago, a group of skeptical Democratic senators met at the White House with President Obama, his chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.... ...
Rollout for TARP Not Exactly Smooth
Christina Rexrode, The Charlotte Observer: "TARP has struggled to clarify its purpose and organize its logistics, according to the three government groups in charge of overseeing the program. They say... ...
US budget deficit nears 1 trillion dlrs: Treasury
The US budget deficit accelerated in March to hit a record nearly one trillion dollars in the first half of the current fiscal year as the government moved to bail out troubled institutions, government... ...
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... ...
Wall St. Ticks Off the World
By Eric Margolis Financial crisis, not armed terrorists, greatest threat to U.S. security. http://informati onclearinghouse.info/artic le22361.htm Resist or Become Serfs By Chris Hedges America... ...
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... ...