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Toxic Assets

Geithner: Where Was the Beef?

Jeff Madrick | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Toxic Assets, Timoth Geithner, Mortgage Defaults, Bank Bailout, Public-Private Partnerships, Business News
Jeff Madrick

Fine principles aside, what's the actual plan in real life? Geithner is short on the details and that was disturbing. Is there still infighting among advisers on how to proceed?

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Stimulating

Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts, Toxic Assets, Timothy Geithner, Wall Street Bailout, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Economic Crisis, Congress Stimulus, U.S. Economy, Congress, Obama Stimulus, Economy, Obama Economy, Stimulus, Congressional Budget Office, Obama Stimulus Plan, Gop Stimulus, Economic Stimulus, Republicans Stimulus, Business News
Zachary Karabell

As muddled as this economic stage may be -- and all major measures taken in crisis usually are -- it is born of the drive to reconstruct and not profiteer, and that alone is progress to applaud.

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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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This Federal Bailout Proposal is a Disaster

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, Barack Obama, Financial Meltdown, Bailout, George W. Bush, Financial Crisis, Toxic Assets, Wall Street, John McCain, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

I am so mad about this proposed federal bailout of Wall Street, I can't see straight. Do you understand what they're going to do? They are about to st...

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