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Banks Aren't Budging On Tight Lending Standards

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Lending, Tarp, Loans, Bank of America, Citibank, Retail Banks, Mortgages, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON — Many banks have made it harder for borrowers to obtain all kinds of loans over the last three months despite a $700 billion federal...

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Lending is Contracting -- As Well It Should

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 02.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Lending Crisis, Tarp, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, Lending, Business News
Hale

There is a rather ridiculous line of thought going on regarding the banking industry: if you receive TARP funds then lending is supposed to increase.

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Micro-Giving: A New Era in Fundraising

John Borthwick and Kenneth Lerer | Posted 01.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Microloans, Twitter, Charity, Betaworks, Lending, Microlending, Micro-Giving, Microgiving, Donations, Holiday Season Commentary, Living News
John Borthwick and Kenneth Lerer

Micro-lending has changed lives. Now a wave of friends and "loose ties" within the social media community are bringing the micro-lending concept and applying it to charitable giving. Call it "Micro-giving."

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Parsing TARP: Sweetening the Deal

Harry Moroz | Posted 01.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Twinkies, Treasury Department, Mark Sanford, Hank Paulson, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Congress, South Caroline, Bankruptcy, Lending, Tarp, Auto Bailout, Business News
Harry Moroz

The American public was sold on TARP -- the Troubled Assets Relief Program -- based on the idea that the funds would be used to buy up, well, troubled assets.

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TARP Not Easing Lending

Houston Chronicle | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, Small Business, Credit, Bailout, Finance, Lending, Economy, Tarp, Business News

Kurt Lieber feels as if he's had the TARP pulled out from under him. As the owner of Werther International, a Houston company that sells air compre...

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Goldman's Revolving Door: Who is Protecting Whom?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Taxes, $700 Billion, Wall Street Bailout, Lipstick, Hank Paulson, Lending, Mortgage Backed Securities, Economy, Revolving Door, $700 Billion Bailout, Pig, Taxpayer, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Henry Paulson, Bailout, Goldman Sachs CEO, Deregulation, Housing Crisis, Tax Exempt, Business News
Robyn O'Brien

Goldman went on a shopping spree buying up mortgages -- yours, mine and your neighbors, and bought 8,274 of them.

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