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6 More Banks Repay TARP Funds

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP, By Daniel Wagner) -- Six banks have repaid government bailouts worth a combined $2.66 billion, the Treasury department said Wednesday....

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Sam Stein

Steele Comes Out Against Tax On Big Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his press briefing on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs all but invited Republicans to attack the president's proposal to tax roug...

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34 Banks Don't Pay Their Quarterly TARP Dividends

USA Today | Pallavi Gogoi and Paul Wiseman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. taxpayers' investments in smaller banks are increasingly at risk. In a sign that more banks are under great pressure from the recession, 34 ...

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Fleecing the USA Again: Non-Performance-Based P3 Banker Fees

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Likosky

If the recovery is done right, we can forge public-private partnerships akin to the Second World War. However, our least patriotic institution, the large scale investment bank, seems to have something different in mind.

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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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Most Bailed Out Banks Reduced Lending Since Getting Funds

Wall Street Journal | DAVID ENRICH, MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN and MAURICE TAMMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lending at the biggest U.S. banks has fallen more sharply than realized, despite government efforts to pump billions of dollars into the financial sec...

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Treasury says bank lending declined in February

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Bank lending to consumers and businesses for many types of loans fell in February despite the billions of dollars in government sup...

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TARP Recipients Must Modify Loans: HUD

bloomberg.com | Dawn Kopecki and Peter Cook | Posted 05.25.2011

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April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Banks receiving federal aid through the U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program must also take part in the government's mortgage mod...

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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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