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The Debt Economy - How The Tax Code Encourages Debt : The New Yorker

newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Taxes, Debt, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, Consumer Lending, The Debt Economy, Leverage, Borrowing, Tax Code, Business News

. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...

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TARP Repayments May Not Help Consumers

Jun. 9, 2009 | Colin Barr, Senior Writer | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Consumer Loans, Consumer Lending, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Tarp-Repayments, Tarp, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Business News

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Don't expect TARP-free banks to unleash a torrent of loans to cash-strapped consumers. The Treasury Department told ten big b...

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Take a Number B of A

Scott Foval | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Bank of America, Credit, Bailout, President Barack Obama, Consumer Lending, ScottsBigMouth.Com, Oversight, Scottsbigmouth, Congress, Stimulus, Big Banks, Mad as Hell, Business News
Scott Foval

To B of A and the big 19: Take a number. We are in line in front of you, and your business doesn't deserve our tax money until you clean up your act.

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