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Die Suche nach »troubled assets« hat 24 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 1 bis 10.

New Dodd Bill Won't Stop Another Meltdown, "Epidemic" of Wall Street Fraud
Art Levine, Truthout: "The political jousting since Sen. Chris Dodd proposed new financial reforms on Monday seems at first to be just another Washington ideological rift: liberals favoring regulating... ...
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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
Bank Bailout Could Cost $4 Trillion
money.cnn.com — The cost of the bank bailout is likely to be much higher than $700 billion. While the Obama administration hasn't asked Congress for more money yet, some experts warn that government spending... ...
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... ...