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Michigan Residents: "Big Three Should Be Singled Out For Rescue"

nytimes.com | MONICA DAVEY and SUSAN SAULNY | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Michigan and Bailouts, Michigan Recession, Michigan Auto Workers, Bailouts, Automaker Bailouts, Auto Industry Bailouts, Business News

Wander Michigan's cities and towns, and many residents offer the same message about the prospect of a $34 billion bailout of America's automakers: Ple...

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Buy Now: One of World's Best Investors

Diane Francis | Posted 12.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Investments, Economic Crisis, Meltdown, Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Bailouts, Common Stocks, Hartford Financial Services, Barack Obama, Berkshire Hathaway, Aig, Wall Street, Rescue, Financial Crisis, Warren Buffett, Stock Market, Wall Street Bailout, Business News
Diane Francis

One of the few investors or money mavens who guessed the meltdown was coming is Canada's Prem Watsa, Chair and founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings L...

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Politics on the Edge: Bailouts, Bunko, and Group Madness

Dan Agin | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Bailouts, Politics News
Dan Agin

What's happening at the moment in America is borderline panic and madness. Some money experts in Wall Street have apparently succeeded in skimming eno...

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In Which I Come Face-to-Face with the American Investor

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, Shareholder Value, Bailouts, Investors, Bing, Economy, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Is it possible, that at some time in the future, the welfare of the companies we serve could be divorced from the fear, the greed, the feral hysteria of the securities marketplace?

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The Great Myth of Main Street

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Gm, Bailouts, Economic Meltdown, Anger, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I have worked in theaters, as a cab driver, in small companies, large corporations and mega-watt global behemoths, and they are all the same. They are people working for a living.

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Fall of the Wall: Can The Financial Sector Be Controlled?

Danny Schechter | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: History, Free Market, Great Fire, Stock Exchange, Wall Street, 911, Bailouts, Media, Business News
Danny Schechter

Where's the outcry when you learn that more money has been spent to contain this crisis than was used in all of World War 11?

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The Right Way To Bailout The Auto Industry

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Al Gore, Chrysler, General Motors, Economy, Ford, Financial Crisis, Climate Change, Uaw, Auto Industry, Barack Obama, Bailouts, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

Up to 3 million jobs -- directly in the industry and secondary jobs that rely on the auto industry's output -- would be effected by a collapse of the industry. That can't happen.

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To Congress: Please Read Before Bailing Out!

Sheila Tendy | Posted 10.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bailout, Federal Reserve, Congress, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Government Bailout, Mccain Bailout, Bailouts, $700 Billion Bailout, Business News
Sheila Tendy

Since the stress level is running high for everyone in Washington and a clear strategy has not yet been formulated, here are some talking points to consider in the bailout negotiations.

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How Can Capitalism Ever Be The Same?

Weekly Standard | Irwin M. Stelzer | Posted 10.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Aig, Freddie Mac, Finance, Economy, Bailouts, Banks, Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, Henry Paulson, Bailout Plan, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Business News

NO MATTER WHAT deal is finally cut between Hank Paulson, the Democrats, and unhappy conservative Republicans, or even if no deal at all is finally wo...

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Paulson's Bazooka May Miss

Fortune | Colin Barr | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Finance, Dollar, Economy, Bailouts, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Banks, Bailout Plan, Ben Bernanke, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Treasury Secretary, Business News

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson fired his bazooka again, but the target remains elusive. Paulson has proposed using $700 billi...

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Who Watches the Watchers?

Sheila Tendy | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Banking Crisis, Credit Crisis, Wall Street, Federal Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Bailouts, Business News
Sheila Tendy

This financial crisis is complex. But it's too important not to understand.

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Markets remain on edge as investors seek safety

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Stocks, Personal Finance, Finance, Banks, Bailouts, Business News

NEW YORK — Volatility swept the financial markets again Monday as investors grew nervous about an amorphous government plan to buy $700 billion ...

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Not So Fast: Democrats Say Bailout Will Pass, But With A Few Changes

Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Bailouts, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Investment Banks, Federal Reserve, Banks, Economy, Finance, Personal Finance, Christopher Dodd, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher Dodd says it's just as important to act responsibly as it is to move hastily on legislation aimed at stabilizing t...

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Pimping Populism for Post-Proletarians

Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Populism, Wall Street, Economy, Bailouts, Neo-Populism, Orgaizing, Mccain, Media, Home News
Rev. Peter Laarman

Never people to spend time reading history (what with the time required for makeup/costume and schmoozing), our corporate media "election team" guys a...

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Walking the Plank With Captain "Bailout" Paulson

Blaise Nutter | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Pirates, Billionaires, Wall Street Crisis, Taxpayers, Wall Street, Bailouts, Piracy, Insurance, Wall Street Bailouts, Henry Paulson Jr., Treasury, Paulson Wall Street Crisis, Financial Bailouts, Business News
Blaise Nutter

Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, in case you hadn't noticed. Everyone's getting into the act... but no one could compete with the pirate-talk of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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Rupert Murdoch Says Taxpayers Won't Be Stuck With Costs (VIDEO)

Fox News | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Economy, Bailouts, Wall Street Crisis, Federal Reserve, Billionaires, Mortgages, Finance, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Banks, Moral Hazard, Personal Finance, Business News

NewsCorp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch appeared on his network, Fox News, to talk to Neil Cavuto about the coming government fix for the crisis on W...

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Stocks tumble after government bailout of AIG

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Stocks, Personal Finance, Aig, AIG Bailout, Bailouts, Federal Reserve, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street plunged again Wednesday as anxieties about the financial system ran high after the government's bailout of insurer Americ...

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Total Bailout Bill = $900 Billion

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Aig, Fannie Mae, Financial Crisis, Bear Stearns, Economic Crisis, Bailouts, Politics News
Hale

Think about that for a minute. $900 billion dollars, racked-up before your very eyes. This at a time when the federal government is already bleeding money.

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AIG Bailout "No Sweetheart Deal"

Wall Street Journal, New York Times | Dave Burdick | Posted 10.18.2008 | Business

Read More: AIG Bailout, Aig, Government Bailout, Economy, Resolution Trust Corp., AIG Ripple Effect, Insurance, AIG Consequences, Why Bail Out AIG?, Bailouts, Banks, Federal Reserve, Business News

The government bailout of insurance giant AIG with a massive loan was anxiously anticipated by TV analysts yesterday. The Wall Street Journal blogged ...

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Next Up: Will The Fed Help AIG?

Wall Street Journal | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Aig, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Insurace, Bailouts, Banks, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Credit Crisis, Business News

It's one fire after another for the Federal Reserve. As it sought to address the Lehman Brothers crisis over the weekend, the next big problem became ...

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Paulson: No "Bailouts" For Reckless Lenders

Wall Street Journal | MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS, GREG IP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Paulson No Bailouts, Economic Stimulus Package, Economic Rescue Package, Rescue Plans, Inflation, Rescue Program, Mortgage Rescue Plan, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Interest-Rate Cuts, Ben Bernanke, Subprime Mortgages, Stagflation, Bailouts, Business News

The Bush administration is hardening its opposition to the chorus of Democrats, bankers, economists and consumer advocates calling for a big-money gov...

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