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- Bailing out Congress: an assessment and defense of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act of 2001.
- This Note provides the first detailed account of the conception, impact, and success of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act ATSSSA of 2001, an $18 billion federal bailout of the airline industry passed eleven days after the terrorist attacks of September 11. The Note argues that, far from...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- "Brother, Can You Spare Me $10 Billion?"
- Bailouts are the name of the game these days and Rick Waggoner wants his cut. The CEO of General Motors has been hounding the U.S. Treasury Department for about $10 billion so he can proceed with his takeover of Chrysler. Why not? Treasury Secretary...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- GM's Waggoner Begs For $10B Bailout... To Capture Chrysler
- Bailouts are the name of the game these days and Rick Waggoner wants his cut. The CEO of General Motors has been hounding the U.S. Treasury Department for about $10 billion so he can proceed with his takeover of Chrysler. Why not? Treasury Secretary...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- More Bailouts? Yep: $25 Billion for Auto
- More Bailouts? Yep: $25 Billion for AutoRE: More Bailouts? Yep: $25 Billion for Autothis is bs if you and i were not responsible for our spending of money were would just have too suffer the things were did not realize and bite the bullet and it a shame that the...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- 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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- Can the US Government Afford Future Bailouts?
- Prudent Speculations submits: Simply put, yes it can. In the days following the bailouts of Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE there have been countless pundits on television and many articles on Seeking Alpha and other investment sites proposing the misplaced thesis that we should worry about the US...
- External links 2008-09-10
- More Bailouts? Yep: $25 Billion for Auto
- While you weren't looking, Congress has approved more bailouts. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved, by a 370-58 vote, a $25 billion package of cheap loans for the Big Three automakers so they can retool their assembly lines to make higher mileage cars. The Congressmen acted...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Jim Rogers On the Fannie/Freddie Bailouts
- Brian Hozian submits: ...
- External links 2008-09-10
- Debt bailouts and constitutions
- I. INTRODUCTION A number of countries have undergone several rounds of bailouts of subnational government debts in the last decade. The Brazilian government, for instance, assumed the debts of the federated states in 1989, 1993, and 1997. Also in its southern neighbor, Argentina, the line that separates provincial and...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Why Won't Geithner Commit to No More Bailouts?
- Given the reputed strong earnings of Goldman & Other US Financial Firms, why won’t secretary Geithner commit to no more bailouts? by J. S. Kim
- External links 2009-07-14
- Super Stock Investor Portfolio with 122% Gain Forecasted to Blast Higher as Bernanke, Geithner and the Obama â??Mother of All Bailoutsâ?? Ignite Stock Prices
- Publisher Offers $1 Trial Subscription, Predicts Bull Market BOCA RATON, Fla. -- The DOW is up 1,228 points or 18.7% since March 9, and the Super Stock ...
- Research articles 2009-03-30
- Dem Bill Urges New U.S. Powers Over Financial Firms
- By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government would gain far-reaching new powers to regulate, and even shut down, large financial firms that threaten economic stability under a draft bill released in Congress on Tuesday.Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration agreed on the legislation, which seeks to...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Dem Bill Urges New Powers Over Financial Firms
- By Kevin Drawbaugh and Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government would gain far-reaching new powers to regulate, and even shut down, large financial firms that threaten economic stability under a draft bill released in Congress on Tuesday.Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration agreed on the legislation, which seeks to...
- News items 2009-10-27
- House Dems Sharpening "too Big to Fail" Plan
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional panel moved toward toughening a plan for dealing with "too big to fail" financial firms on Tuesday, while rejecting a Republican alternative that is expected to reappear later.The House Financial Services Committee, locked for weeks in debate over financial reforms, voted...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Managing Confidence in Emerging Market Bank Runs
- In a rational-expectations framework, the paper model depositors' confidence as a function of the probability of future bank bailouts. It analyzes the effect of alternative bank bailout policies on depositors' confidence in an emerging market setting, where liquidity shortages of banks are revealed sequentially and governments cannot credibly commit to...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- U.S. Carmakers to Candidates: Bail Us Out
- America's traditional car makers have been lobbying hot and heavy this political season at the Denver and St. Paul conventions. They're throwing around their political clout (car-heavy Michigan and Ohio have 37 electoral votes) to convince the presidential candidates, not to mention the U.S. Congress, to cough...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- 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
- Beware Trade Protectionism
- As if there weren't worries enough about the economy, an old monster seems to be rearing its ugly head. A series of nations around the world are adopting protectionist trade policies to shore up their home industries as they, too, sufffer through the worldwide recession. France is...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- MasterCard and Visa: The Pleasure of Plastic
- Trader Mark submits: I am going to attempt to mix in some talk about specific companies again like we used to do, before everything turned into government, bailouts, economics, and bailouts. Did I mention bailouts?Below is a mention of one of the best business models on Earth - that of...
- External links 2009-04-01
- Obama "too Big to Fail" Plan Blasted in Congress
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's new proposal for tackling financial risk in the U.S. economy, unveiled just two days ago, came under attack on Thursday from Congress and regulators, with questions raised about its funding and scope.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled in a congressional hearing to...
- News items 2009-10-29
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