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Your Tax Dollars Are Paying for the SBA to Post Videos on YouTube!

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, SBTV.Com, Youtube, Federal Reserve, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Obama Administration, Funding, Sba, Business News
Susan Wilson Solovic

Small business owners who are hanging on for dear life won't find any answers on the SBA's YouTube channel.

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The $2 Trillion Secret

Pat Choate | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street, Bailout, TARP Money, Fed, Bernanke, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke, Business News
Pat Choate

As the sheer volume of the Fed financing makes clear, the bailout of the financial sector involves more than the $700 billion approved by Congress in late 2008.

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Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Economics, Mortgage Crisis, Media, Obama Health Care, Recession, Lending Crisis, Investment Banks, Wall Street, Rachel Maddow, Joe Wilson, Bernanke, Health Care Reform, Banks, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Refinancing, Economic Recovery, Ben Bernanke, Media News, Wall Street Bonuses, Tea Party, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

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Bernanke: Recession Is Very Likely Over

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Crash, Economic Recession, Bernanke, Economic Crisis, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke, Recession Over, Recession, Bernanke Recession Over, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday the worst recession since the 1930s is probably over, although he cautioned that...

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It's Not a "Free Market" System When Taxpayers Are Financing the Profits

David Sirota | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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David Sirota

Obama praising banks for being "profitable in a free market system" is like him transferring $1 million into my bank account, then sending me a letter for having mustered the brilliance to earn $1 million.

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Why the Senate Should Confirm Bernanke But Make the Fed More Accountable, Too

Robert Reich | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Federal Bailouts, Fed Chairman, Wall Street, Bailout, Fed, Main Street, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama, Fed Chair Bernake and US Recession, Business News
Robert Reich

If you'd have asked me three months ago whether Bernanke would be confirmed, I'd have said no. Congress (and much of the public) is still furious about the bank bailouts, as well they should be.

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Bernanke to Congress: I Don't Know to Whom We Gave Half a Trillion Dollars

Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Central-Bank-Liquidity-Swaps, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke, Wall Street Crisis, Alan Grayson, Business News
Sheldon Filger

The Fed and its chairman have made many errors in judgment, not the least their overly-optimistic pronouncements when the first tremors from the sub-prime meltdown arose.

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Ben Bernanke and His Terrifying Toolkit

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business

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Sheldon Filger

Massive monetary decisions that are risky in the extreme, and will likely have intergenerational consequences, become mere "tools." The consequential becomes the ubiquitous.

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Billions for AIG to Protect the Speculative Profits of Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Goldman Sachs, Bail Outs, Morgan Stanley, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Goldman-Ceo Blankfein, Credit-Default Swaps, Cds, Credit Default Swaps, Economy, Stimulus Package, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

It is past time that a distinction be made between that part of AIG's business that was a "large and stable insurance company," and that part that was a "hedge fund," or better put, a casino.

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Bernanke to Congress: "We Can't Expect Immediate Results"

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Tuesday that a flurry of radical programs aimed at busting through debilitating...

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Oil Prices in Steep Decline: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Energy, Tom Freidman, OPEC President Khelil, Cftc, Saudi Arabia, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, King Abdullah, Treasury Sec.Paulson, Energy Sec.Bodman, President Bush, Gordon Brown, Oil, Crude Oil Prices, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Something sinister is afoot in the steep decline of oil prices: Our sense of outrage at the oil industry risks being mollified; just when we become serious about alternative fuels, suddenly, magically, the price of oil retreats.

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