Tarp Bailout

Surprised? Those Big Banks That Got Taxpayer Money Are Still Taking Huge Risks

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.07.2012

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The big banks that critics claim caused the financial crisis may have gotten bailed out, but they apparently haven't learned their lesson. Large b...

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AIG Shares Fall Low Enough To Threaten Government Loss

Posted 07.09.2011

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Shares in bailed-out insurer American International Group (AIG.N) fell to their lowest levels in nearly eight months on Monday, potentially moving...

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Obama Treasury Celebrates Bailout Profits While Ignoring Costs, Legacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.30.2011

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NEW YORK -- On Wednesday, the Treasury Department celebrated the fact that its $250 billion investment in the nation's banking system has officially m...

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America Is Not Broke

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot.

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"A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built on the Expectation of Bailouts"

Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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TARP played a significant role preventing the mini-depression from becoming a full-blown Great Depression, but part of the cost is to distort further incentives at the heart of Wall Street.

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Time to "Stress Test" the Fed

Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, the Federal Reserve was forced by law to release the details of its back-door bailout of the global financial system. These later purchases represent the real risk for taxpayers in the Fed's continuing bailout activities

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What's Really Behind QE2?

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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The deficit hawks are circling, hovering over QE2, calling it just another inflationary bank bailout. But unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the ban...

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More Small Banks Are Becoming TARP 'Deadbeats'

washingtonpost.com | Brady Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

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The latest report from the agency shows that more than 120 institutions - nearly all of them small banks - have missed their scheduled quarterly divid...

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The Great American Credit Catastrophe Is Our Generation's 9/11

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

The housing crisis is just one piece of the big, ugly mess of the consumer credit debacle. It seems to me that our president must call for immediate reform and take action through executive order.

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Goldman Sachs Sued by German Bank Over Davis Square VI, an AIG CDO Bailed Out by Taxpayers (Updated)

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the latest lawsuit, taxpayers might again ask why the Federal Reserve was so eager to bail out all of AIG's deals linked to problematic CDOs at 100 cents on the dollar. The largest beneficiary of that largess was Goldman Sachs.

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The Complementary Wings of the Republican Party

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011

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The more traditional wing of the Republican Party has for generations conducted a program that they casually and regularly accuse liberals of conducting: Class warfare. In fact it is they who conduct class warfare.

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How Glenn Beck Can Become a Progressive -- Really!

John F. Wasik | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beck and his tea-bagging minions apparently don't want anything to do with creating jobs for those who need them.

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Treasury Bailout's Limits On Lobbyists Still Haven't Taken Effect

Wall Street Journal | MEENA THIRUVENGADAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A plan by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to limit lobbyists' influence over the $700 billion bailout program has yet to get off the...

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Citigroup Bonuses: Bank Pays Millions To London Traders

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The timing couldn't be better. With the Obama administration readying new compensation guidelines for certain financial companies, Forbes reported Tue...

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TARP Repayment: Treasury Says 10 Banks Get To Payback $68B

AP | DANIEL WAGNER and STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation's largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money. The department o...

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TARP Repayments Reveal The Weakest Banks

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The government has finally acknowledged something it wanted to keep secret six months ago: Which banks are in the worst financial health. It's now ...

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Banks Declining TARP Funds, $2 Billion Turned Down

bailoutsleuth.com | Avi Klein on February 27, 2009 4:01 PM | Posted 05.25.2011

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German American Bancorp Inc. said this week it would turn down $25 million in taxpayer capital from the Treasury Department and raise funds through a ...

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Freedom Watch Is Back: Right-Wing Group Sues For TARP Details

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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A conservative legal group is suing the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to reveal exactly how the first $350 billion of the financial serv...

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The Evil of Banality

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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It could be that our institutions are so corrupt, our political discourse so banal and polluted, that they are incapable of lifting us up from our national malaise.

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Government Watchdog: TARP Still Lacks Transparency, Accountability

Wall Street Journal | MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. Treasury's financial-rescue plan remains an incomplete operation, plagued by backlogs and a lack of clear mission, a government watchdog said...

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TARP II: Krugman Slams Obama Plan For Second Bailout

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Thursday, news came out that Treasury officials are planning a second bank bailout -- one that could cost another $1 to $2 trillion. In a blog p...

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