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- The Bailout Failure: Let's All Take a Deep Breath
- The Bailout Failure: Let's All Take a Deep BreathRE: The Bailout Failure: Let's All Take a Deep BreathMy sentiments exactly.RE: The Bailout Failure: Let's All Take a Deep BreathI feel that Joe Public needs some level of protection from the results of the banks excesses and lack of self-policing. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
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- The Bailout Failure: Let's All Take a Deep Breath
- Monday could not have been more dramatic. After more than a week of dickering, a Wall Street bailout package finally got far enough for real consideration. It lost by merely 23 votes in the U.S House of Representatives. The Dow quickly screamed bloody murder with a loss of 777 points,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Financial Roundup: Bailout Failure and Global Meltdown, Lower Rates Don't Stimulate, Better Bailout PR, and More
- Will the defeat of the auto bailout trigger a new global meltdown? --Â Stormy stock futures and dramatically lower global markets seem to say it will. Veteran economics writer Steven R. Weisman offers comparisons with the global impact of New York City's financial crisis 33 years ago. [Source: thedailybeast.com] ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Release of rest of U.S. bailout funds gains favor
- Republican and Democratic Senate leaders signaled on Monday that they would support the release of the second half of the Treasury's $700 billion financial system bailout fund, despite anger among many rank-and-file lawmakers over the Bush administration's management of the program. As Congress prepared to act, regulators directed thousands of banks...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Geithner, Under Fire, Defends AIG Bailout
- By David Lawder and Emily KaiserWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday defended the costly bailout of insurer AIG and urged swift regulatory reform to safeguard the economy from the failure of big financial firms.Before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, Geithner faced fierce criticism of his role in...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Geithner, Under Fire, Defends AIG Bailout
- By David Lawder and Emily Kaiser WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner defended on Thursday the costly bailout of AIG and urged swift regulatory reform to safeguard the economy from the failure of big financial firms. Before Congress' Joint Economic Committee Geithner faced fierce criticism of his role...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Geithner, Under Fire, Defends AIG Bailout
- By David Lawder and Emily KaiserWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday defended the costly bailout of insurer AIG and urged swift regulatory reform to safeguard the economy from the failure of big financial firms.Before Congress' Joint Economic Committee, Geithner faced fierce criticism of his role in...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Fed Bailout Rejected, Now What's Going To Happen?
- Fed Bailout Rejected, Now What's Going To Happen?RE: Fed Bailout Rejected, Now What's Going To Happen?bailout was obviously a poor idea, you cannot spoon feed corporates who cannot look after themselves. They pay fancy salaries to their talentless managers & ceo's & if this is what they stand for they...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Despite $143 Billion Bailout, AIG May Be Tottering Towards Collapse
- Despite a $143 billion federal rescue effort, American International Group seems to be tottering towards collapse. The giant insurer is quickly running through Federal Reserve lending and key executives are jumping ship, leaving some experts to wonder if bankruptcy might have been a better alternative. Claiming to be...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Financial Roundup: GMAC Gets Bailout, AIG Dumps Derivatives, Banks Need Help for TARP Aid, FASB Gives Fair Value Break
- Merry Christmas, GMAC! -- The financial arm of General Motors, GMAC Financial, got a big present Christmas Eve when the Federal Reserve allowed it to become a bank holding company. Doing so lets GMAC apply for the $700 billion bailout program and perhaps avoid bankruptcy. [Source: The Associated Press] ...
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- Some Republicans Take Some Semblance of Accountability for Auto Industry Bailout
- Joel West submits: On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid out his party’s position on the proposed auto industry bailout. Some excerpts: First and foremost, we will not let taxpayers spend their hard-earned money on ailing carmakers unless these companies are forced to reform their bad habits —...
- External links 2008-12-10
- Analysts: Bet on a General Motors bailout of Delphi before Oct. 17.(News)(Delphi Corp.)(General Motors Corp.)
- Byline: David Barkholz Crain News Service What would be more costly to General Motors Corp.: a bailout of Delphi Corp., or a Delphi bankruptcy? Based on some fresh financial analysis by a Wall Street analyst and an automotive think tank, a bailout...
- Research articles 2005-08-29
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Compensate CEOs for Failure
- The massive bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac show unfortunate trends once again in the U.S. corporate world: failed executives get rewarded while trusting shareholders get bupkis. Freddie Mac's CEO Richard Syron could get nearly $15 million, according to news accounts. Over at Fannie Mae, CEO...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Clock Ticking On WaMu Sale or Bailout
- WaMu is poised to be sold. Now, all it needs is a buyer. A major private equity investor in Washington Mutual has agreed to conditions that clear the way for a possible sale. Unfortunately, the Seattle-based Washington Mutual may be so severely damaged that no suitor will...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- More pain: Japanese banks. (Toyo Shinkin bailout)
- The Industrial Bank of Japan IBJ is being forced to absorb much of the financial cost of the bailout of Osaka-based Toyo Shinkin credit union, even though Toyo Shinkin is controlled by Sanwa Bank. IBJ is being held responsible for the Toyo Shinkin failure because of its involvement in a...
- Research articles 1992-05-09
- CIT Group Failure Threatens Halt To This Year's Financial Sector Recovery
- Just as the financial services industry seems to have made it past the worst of the economic meltdown, one small lender now threatens to reverse that trend. CIT Group, a lender to small and medium sized businesses, appears to be on the brink of collapse for the second time this...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Auto Bailout: Ford's Sentiment Tells All
- Casey B. Mulligan submits: Of the Big Three, Ford F is said to be the most solvent. Does Ford want its weaker competitors to fail or survive? In many industries, each producer fantasizes that some of his competitors would go out of business. With their failure, the surviving...
- External links 2008-12-22
- Failure of Bond Market Highly Positive for Gold and Silver
- Peter Cooper submits: Analysts say the US will have to triple its bond issuance this year to meet the cost of federal bailout and stimulus packages, while in the UK the printing of money has sent 10-year gilt yields tumbling from 3.64 to 2.94 per cent. The...
- External links 2009-03-17
- Japan's J-REIT Market to Get a $10.5 Billion Bailout
- Japan's J-REIT market was launched in 2001 amid a lot of doubt among foreign investors that the market would ever take off, but take off it did, particularly from 2003, when Japan's decade-long "Heisei Malaise" ostensibly ended, and the Nikkei 225 bottomed at around 7,600 in April of that year....
- External links 2009-05-26
- Banesto fiasco. (failure of Banco Espanol de Credito S.A.) (Editorial)
- Banesto was known to be in dire straits months before its Dec 28, 1993 bailout by the Bank of Spain. The incident should cause serious international concern about the judgement of J.P. Morgan, about the dependability of Spanish regulators, and about allowing banks to make large industrial stock investments.WHEN banks...
- Research articles 1994-01-08
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