Bailout Oversight

Taibbi's Scream: Stop the Political System That Lets Goldman Sachs and Others Run Roughshod Over Society

Rob Johnson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

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We must recognize that we have been violated by experts and leaders. What's needed is a proper cleansing of social misdeed through outrage.

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Bailout Watchdog Warns Of Lack Of Oversight, Potential For Fraud

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department's most ambitious plans to rescue troubled banks -- partnerships between the government and private investors, ba...

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Bailout Oversight Panel Warns Financial Crisis "Taking Root In The Larger Economy"

ABC News | CHARLES HERMAN and ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

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Govt. May Spend More than $4 Trillion but Economy Faces 'Prolonged Weakness,' Oversight Panel Reports...

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TARP Watchdog Finally Gets Expanded Authority

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home

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After months of waiting, Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), will finally be given the resou...

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Facing Oversight, Banks Go On Offense

washingtonpost.com | Amit R. Paley | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

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Wall Street is trying to move out of its defensive crouch. The chieftains of eight of the nation's largest banks could receive a tongue-lashing when ...

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Four Reasons to Oppose the Bush-Obama Request for Another $350 Billion Bailout

David Sirota | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Nobody has explained why spending another $350 billion on a Wall Street bailout is a better way to stabilize and stimulate the economy than, say, devoting that money to universal health care.

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Frank Willing To Take Obama's Word On Bailout Funds

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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Barney Frank is willing to take Barack Obama at his word. Frank introduced legislation at the end of last week that would have tied a number of strin...

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The End Of Bailout Transparency: How Treasury Lets Private Institutions Hide Public Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

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In the early days, every public official associated with TARP--the $700 billion Targeted Asset Relief Program--promised openness and transparency. "W...

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Bailout Overseer Elizabeth Warren: We're Still Trying To Get Office Space

TPMMuckraker | Natalie Sherman | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

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Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who chairs the Congressional Oversight Panel, which is monitoring the Treasury's spending of the bailout m...

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Treasury Lacks Management, Control, Say Auditors

Wall Street Journal | MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has failed to address a number of critical issues while implementing the $700 billion financial rescue plan, inc...

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Bush Picks Federal Prosecutor To Oversee Bailout

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

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WASHINGTON — The young prosecutor tapped to monitor the $700 billion financial rescue plan has brought down Colombian drug traffickers, gone aft...

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Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged

Washington Post | Amit R. Paley | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

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In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury's massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country's larges...

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The Presidential Debate and Senator Coburn as a Potential Accountability & Transparency Czar

Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Senator Coburn is often misunderstood and is regularly hauled over the coals by the media

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