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- The Real Price of Life in Bailout Nation
- Author and popular blogger Barry Ritholtz blasts Uncle Sam's massive economic intervention and warns that the cure for recession could be worse than the disease. What is the most common misconception about the crisis? That this was a perfect storm of...
- Articles 2009-05-29
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- CIT Group Is Welcomed to Bailout Nation
- Trader Mark submits: "Great news" readers; the Wall Street Journal reports that Bailout Nation was only in a bit of a hibernation for a few months... we're baaaaaack. As I wrote last Friday [Jul 10: Keep CIT Group on Radar] This morning CIT Group CIT is crumbling as the FDIC...
- External links 2009-07-14
- Bailout Nation Mentality: Ford Workers Reject Further Concessions
- On October 30, 2009, TheStreet.com published a story about how the UAW membership appeared to be voting against contract modifications with Ford Motor Company F despite the recommendation of the UAW leadership. The contract modifications only sought to conform Ford's contract with the revised contract between the UAW and General...
- External links 2009-11-02
- S&L bailout continues amid rays of light. (savings and loan associations' bailout in the face of recession's end)
- S&L bailout continues amid rays of light WASHINGTON -- It will take at least another $80 billion to carry into next year the government's bailout of the nation's savings and loan institutions, according to the chairman of the Federal Deposit InsS&L bailout continues amid...
- Research articles 1991-06-24
- Improving the Wall Street Bailout Proposal
- Improving the Wall Street Bailout ProposalRE: Improving the Wall Street Bailout ProposalShut down Freddie Mac and Fannie May and let the banks in trouble go bankrupt. The financial market needs this enema. Top off with increased accountability and regulation. And convince the population to buy homes it can afford.RE: Improving...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Veterans of '90s U.S. bank bailout see opportunity in current one
- A tight-knit group of former senior U.S. government officials who were central players in the savings and loan bailout of the 1990s are seeking to capitalize on the latest economic meltdown, enjoying a surge in new business in their work now as private lawyers, investors and lobbyists. With $700 billion in...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Bailout or No Bailout: It's the Economy, Stupid
- Dan Schmeidler submits: So here we continue with the saga of our nation's debt. And that debt is about to become significantly worse. In the meantime, we question if Congress will allow the Feds (via its use of our nation's treasury) to take full reign over attempts to ease the...
- External links 2008-09-24
- In Michigan, bank lends little of its U.S. bailout funds
- The bad bets made by executives at Independent Bank of Michigan are on display in spots across the state: a defunct bowling alley, a new but never occupied shopping center and the luxurious Whispering Woods Estates, which offers prime lots for never-constructed dream homes. Now it is the U.S. government making...
- News items 2009-08-07
- New Jersey Senate Approves $100 Million Bailout of Two HMOs.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Mar. 24--In a public bailout of one of the biggest HMO failures in the nation, the state Senate yesterday gave final approval to a bill that would force taxpayers and HMOs to cough up $100 million to cover unpaid bills to doctors and hospitals. ...
- Research articles 2000-03-24
- Congress' $30 Billion Bailout Will Hurt Economic Recovery, Says ALEC
- WASHINGTON, April 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A proposed $30 billion bailout of the states by Congress and state lobbying groups will "hurt" the nation's economic recovery while deepening state budget deficits, says the American Legislative Exchange CWASHINGTON, April 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A proposed $30 billion bailout of the states...
- Research articles 2003-04-30
- With Bailout In Sight, Big Private Investors Back Banks
- While the proposed $700 billion, taxpayer-backed rescue of the economy is grabbing the nation's undivided attention, private investors are pouring billions into the U.S. financial system and backing banking groups poised to survive the current crisis. Right now, an estimated $40 billion in outside money is being pumped into some of the country's biggest banking concerns....
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Bailout Bill Has Major Compensation Limits
- Bailout Bill Has Major Compensation LimitsRE: Bailout Bill Has Major Compensation Limitsthis is nothing unususalin executive compensation compnaies however will just gross it up.RE: Bailout Bill Has Major Compensation LimitsThat has loopholes the size of the Atlantic Ocean written all over it. Good thoughts in theory, but CEO's who...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- ACEC Urges Congress to Address Infrastructure Crisis in Bailout Package
- WASHINGTON -- Congress needs to tackle the crisis facing the nation's infrastructure with the same urgency as the crisis facing the nation's financial markets, said ACEC President and CEO David A. Raymond. Raymond is urging congressional leaders to include infrastructure investment as a component of the financial bailout legislation...
- Research articles 2008-09-22
- Rice, Inhofe defend stands on bailout and economics at U.S. Senate
- In potential fallout from the $700 billion federal bailout program, both Democrat Andrew Rice and Republican Jim Inhofe seemed on the defensive during The State Chamber's U.S. Senate candidate forum. Rice, elected to the state Senate in 2006 from Oklahoma City, said he would have voted against the...
- Research articles 2008-10-15
- Bailout Ultimatum: Uncle Sam Wants Chase, BofA, Goldman As Partners
- Under the U.S. government's economic rescue plan, the nation's biggest banks get richer. And the smaller banks? Well, they get to wait in line. The U.S. Treasury will quickly invest about $125 billion to purchase ownership stakes in nine of the nation's largest banks, including JP Morgan...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Bailout Fallout: Watch For Declining CEO Pay Packages
- Many CEO pay packages will now come under the microscope, courtesy of the proposed multi-billion economic bailout plan that will require limiting top executive pay-outs. Passage of the rescue plan will provide more ammunition to shareholder activists and corporate governance interests fighting to contain, or roll back, giant compensation pacts for corporate CEOs and senior-level executives -- especially those in the financial services...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- The U.S. Auto Bailout: Bridge to Bankruptcy, or Road to Salvation?
- Andy Singh submits: One of the most important, but dividing, issues currently facing America and Congress, as the economy continues to crumble, is the need or not for a US automakers bailout. The US owned automakers directly or indirectly touch most of us and their future is considered vital to...
- External links 2008-11-18
- Debate continues over thrift bailout funding.
- The single, most expensive project ever undertaken by any nation--the federal savings and loan bailout came to a halt on April 1, when the House overwhelmingly rejected the administration's request for additional funds. Opposition was led by conservative House Republicans who believe the U.S. Treasury...
- Research articles 1992-04-20
- Bailout Buffet: Is Bank of America Ready For More?
- Now that Citigroup has gobbled up a second helping of taxpayer dollars, there's growing speculation that rival Bank of America is next in line for another bailout meal. At the time of Citigroup's new deal, President George Bush told the American people that more government-backed bank rescues...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Retail Roundup: Boscov's Bailout Falters, E-Commerce SEO Tips, More
- Boscov's bailout falters after Penn. counties reject loan -- Pennsylvania officials are struggling to scrape together a plan to keep Boscov's department-store chain afloat after two of the seven counties with Boscov's stores within their borders declined to partake in a $35 million scheme to bailout the suffering retailer. After...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
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