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Feds unveil plans to unfreeze consumer debt market

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: College Loans, Finance, Economy, Loans, Credit Crunch, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Credit Issuers, Business News

WASHINGTON — The government has introduced a pair of new programs that will provide $800 billion to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt w...

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Paulson: Troubled Assets Will Not Be Purchased

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Hank Paulson, Henry Paulson, Treasury, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Loans, Toxic Assets, Paulson 382 News Conference, Troubled Assets Will Not Be Purchased, Business News

WASHINGTON — Urgently shifting course, the Bush administration is abandoning the centerpiece of its massive $700 billion economic rescue plan an...

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Make the Banks Pay the Government Back or Foreclose on Them

Stephen Kaus | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Paulson, Wall Street, Loans, Wall St. Crisis, Banks, Financial Crisis, Troubled Assets, Business News
Stephen Kaus

If the problem, as "Hank" Paulson repeated Sunday, is that there was no way to value the "troubled" assets, the price is obviously going to be arbitrary. So, why don't we consider it a loan?

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Will Skittish Banks Slow U.S. Economy Even More?

New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Banking Crisis, Lending Crisis, Financials, Loans, Business News

"The second half of the year is shot," said Michael T. Darda, chief economist at the trading firm MKM Partners in Greenwich, Conn., who was until rece...

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It's A Very Serious Banking Crisis

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 07.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Banking, Mortgage Loans, Mortgages, Loans, Business News
Hale

The amount of money banks are setting aside to absorb losses is increasing, as is the amount of money they are charging off. Neither of these are good developments.

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Homeowners Could Get New Federal Loans

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Homeowners, Loans, Business News

WASHINGTON — Homeowners staggering under mounting mortgage debt and facing foreclosure could get cheaper, government-backed loans under Democrat...

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High-Priced Student Loans Could 'Haunt US Economy For Years'

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, College, Loans, Business News

he near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decade has produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that could haunt the U.S. econ...

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