Bailout Cost

Bailout Cost: Government Prepared To Lend More Than $7.4 Trillion To Ease Credit

Bloomberg | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

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The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers, or half the value of everything produced in the natio...

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Fifty Chimpanzees or One Toothless Gorilla

Deborah Senn | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

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Deborah Senn

AIG's financial meltdown this past week was not the result of failed insurance regulation. (Go ahead. Read that one more time, real slow.)

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Calling Paulson's Bluff

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business

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Robert Kuttner

Paulson spent the past two weeks playing a game of chicken with firms like Lehman Brothers and AIG. Now he is playing even higher-stakes chicken with Congress and the economy.

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Fannie, Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $25 Billion

New York Times | David M. Herszenhorn | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- The proposed government rescue of the nation's two mortgage finance giants will appear on the federal budget as a $25 billion cost to ta...

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