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<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
The Rally Apologista’s Handbook
Josh Brown penned this amusing and accurate takedown on the anti-Rally squad.“But the volume is lower than in previous...
14 hours ago The Big Picture | Topics: Bailouts, Humor, Trading
 
<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
Why WaMu Was Closed
Interesting piece on the new Portfolio.com site — now under new ownership — on the question Why Did They Close...
23 hours ago The Big Picture | Topics: Bailouts, Credit, Regulation
 
Barbara
Barbara posted a blog entry
Wall Sreet Scofflaws Raking in Millions in Compensation via US Taxes
American ScofflawIn the following article Bloomberg columnist Alice Schroeder writes that workers at Goldman Sachs are applying...
 
ianheath653
ianheath653 posted a blog entry
How Citigroup Will Pay Back Its TARP Money
Poor Citigroup. The company still hasn’t been able to come up with a plan to pay back its bailout money to the U.S....
 
Teodoro Leon III
Teodoro Leon III posted a blog entry
Obama Tackles Jobless Woes, but Warns of Limited Funds
Confronted with concern that his own ambitious agenda and the uncertain climate it has created among employers have slowed...
 
TheRetailDoctor
TheRetailDoctor posted a tweet
RT LAT Bank bailouts appear to be paying off -sorry naysayers http://bit.ly/5olTX1
 
<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
Geithner: TARP to End Soon
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress it was the administration’s intent to “end the $700 billion financial...
5 days ago The Big Picture | Topics: Bailouts
 
Aine
Aine posted a blog entry
Sanders Puts Hold on Bernanke
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today placed a hold on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal...
 
JamesOTB
JamesOTB posted a blog entry
Krugman: Jobs Program Needed
Paul Krugman argues that “the recession is probably over in a technical sense” the government must nonetheless...
 
David B
David B posted a blog entry
Plan a Long Term Investment Strategy - You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me!
Banks under the Fractional Reserve Banking model aided and abetted by Central Banks engineer booms and busts through creating...
 
Aine
Aine posted a blog entry
Bankers making turkeys out of taxpayers
The nation’s bankers have much to be thankful for as they sit down to their turkey dinners on Thursday.At this time last...
 
<em>basil99a</em>
basil99a posted a blog entry
IMF: 50% of Bank Losses Still Hidden
“There are still some important losses that have not been unveiled. It’s possible that 50 percent (of bank losses)...
13 days ago The Big Picture | Topics: Bailouts, Credit
 
SevenCell
SevenCell posted a blog entry
An Orwellian Approach to Corporate Governance: How ‘Bout We Watch Big Brother?
Part of my larger purpose in the SevenCell Blog is to occasionally push readers to think outside the box in examining larger,...
 
Kuber
Kuber posted a blog entry

Bail Outs Cover  Bankers' Losses!Printing Press and Helicopter Working...
 
MRhé
MRhé posted a blog entry
Government, Geithner screw taxpayers in AIG bailout
Disgraced ex-governor-turned-columnist Eliot Spitzer over at Slate talks...
15 days ago Chez MRhé | Topics: Slate, Bailouts, Wall Street, AIG
 
The Scholar
The Scholar posted a tweet
New blog post: New Bankruptcy Policy Can Avoid Mass Bailouts http://bit.ly/6KSJBX/
 
PhuckPolitics
PhuckPolitics posted a blog entry
Where’s the teabagger outrage?
Because I thought they hated shit like this:Leading Indian outsourcers such as Tata Consultancy (Bombay:TCS.BO – News),...
 
Pascal B
Pascal B shared an item
Roger Lowenstein on Financial Reform
Roger Lowenstein, author of When Genius Failed and Origins of the Crash, is working on a new book on the bailouts and meltdown.In his most recent Bloomberg column, Lowenstein looks at the current spate of flailing financial reforms. He notes that most...
 
Saratica
Saratica posted a blog entry
Scapegoating Capitalism
There have been many deeply mistaken ideas that enjoyed almost universal acceptance until reality overtook the illusion. Take...
 
Hal
Hal posted a blog entry
Scapegoating Capitalism
There have been many deeply mistaken ideas that enjoyed almost universal acceptance until reality overtook the illusion. Take...
 
K W
K W posted a blog entry
Do you see a Pattern?
Just in the last few days, we are being attacked again by the foolishness of the Whitehouse and Democrats.   Have you ever in...
 
John the Disciple
John the Disciple posted a blog entry
Chinese More Concerned With American Financial Policy Than Obama Is?
So who may b asking the really tough questions of President Obama about the costs of the Healthcare Bill?The Red Chinese. No...
20 days ago Alamo City Pundit | Topics: Bailout..., China, bailouts
 
donklephant
donklephant posted a blog entry
GM Repayment: Beyond the Headlines
Our auto company GM is “repaying” some of the bailout money early! Or so say the headlines.But the reality is a...
22 days ago Donklephant | Topics: Bailouts, GM, GM bailout
 
Business P
Business P posted a blog entry
GM says it lost $1.2B post-bankruptcy exit
GM said today the company is turning the business around after posting only a $1.2B loss after emerging from bankruptcyGeneral...
 
John the Disciple
John the Disciple posted a blog entry
GM Abandons Saab; Swedish Refuse to Knuckle-Under to “Chicago Way”
And understandably, the Swedish are highly peed off at the U.S. right now.What was all that campaign rhetoric about...
 
Blue Collar Muse
Blue Collar Muse posted a blog entry
More Examples of Logic and Reason from Democrats
73Wire had this video up last Wednesday, the 11th. It would be hilarious if what she was bloviating about wasn’t so...
 
Fiar
Fiar posted a blog entry
Government Bailouts? Watch What You Ask For
Our scene opens in a very dark place.“Damn, who farted?”“Wasn’t me.”“Me either.”“Or...
 
Tyson
Tyson posted a blog entry
Parties Seek Balance Between Purity, Compromise
Retired President Bill Clinton addressed Senate Democrats this week in hopes of spurring them to bridge intra-party divides and...
 
Blue Collar Muse
Blue Collar Muse posted a blog entry
Jim Cooper Testifies Debt is a Dangerous “Fiscal Cancer” After Voting for Pelosi’s Health Care Bill
The Tennessean today reported that Tennessee 5th District Democrat Jim Cooper testified at a Senate hearing and said...
 
Pascal B
Pascal B shared an item
Regulation Going Backwards
Here’s another one of those stories that will make your blood pressure boil: Instead of moving forward with broad regulatory protections of economics system, we are undoing effective regulations that protect investors.Floyd Norris has the details....
 
Harrison
Harrison posted a blog entry
How the UAW Is Hurting Ford and Chrysler
Earlier we read about how Washington State lost out on tons of jobs building the new Boeing 787 because of Big Union...
 
scottfree12
scottfree12 posted a blog entry
More of the Same from DC
My sources for this piece are: the previously cited PBS Frontline documentaries The Warning, Breaking the Bank, and Inside the...
 
Blue Collar Muse
Blue Collar Muse posted a blog entry
Why the Dow Dropped 250 Points Or the Only “Boom” is from the Economy Imploding
Not even the NYT can avoid reporting that on the last trading day in October, the Dow Jones dropped like it was pole-axed,...
 
Doctor Housing Bubble
Doctor Housing Bubble posted a blog entry
Real Homes of Genius: Culver City and the Housing Stockholm Syndrome. Approximately 5 Percent of Current Home Price is related to Government Bailouts.
Only looking at economics for an answer to the housing bubble mania will leave you with many questions unanswered.  As in most...
 
SevenCell
SevenCell posted a blog entry
Executive Pay: Salary Caps and Free Market Forces
Elitist editorialists and academics are sounding like a broken records these days.  The pundits on “The McLaughlin...