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Wall Street Bailout

The End of 'Too Big to Fail'

Rep. Paul Kanjorski | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Paul Kanjorski, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Financial Regulation, Business News
Rep. Paul Kanjorski

The economic meltdown we narrowly averted last year rightfully convinced the American people that we need to re-examine the fundamental structure of our financial system. Naturally, Wall Street disagrees.

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Goldman's Profits Come from Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax

Ellen Brown | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Traders, Program Trading, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Tobin Tax, Sales Tax, G20 Summit, Joseph Stiglitz, IMF Funding, United Nations, Economic Stimulus, Business News
Ellen Brown

While Wall Street's welfare queens have been busy collecting generous government handouts, the 50 states have been left to fend for themselves.

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Goldman Sachs Doing "God's Work"?

Charles Gasparino | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Goldman Sachs Bailout, Blankfein, Banks, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs TARP, Goldman Sachs Profits, Goldman, Business News
Charles Gasparino

The only thing worse than Goldman Sachs amassing billions in bonus money for its executives, based on various government subsidies and bailout measures, is listening to it try to explain it all away.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Wall Street Bailout, Dylan Ratigan, Bailout Bandits, Financial Corruption, Bailout, Tim Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

The current custodian of America's wealth, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is not doing a good job. The time for corrective action is now.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Frank Says "Too Big To Fail" Bill Will Be Changed

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Tbtf, Bailout, Tim Geithner, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, John Dugan, Financial Crisis, Banks, Timothy Geithner, Sheila Bair, Business News

Democrats and Republicans ripped into Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a Congressional hearing Thursday, as Geithner defended an administrat...

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Brad Sherman: Finance Safeguards An Executive Power Grab, "TARP On Steroids"

Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Brad Sherman Finance Safeguards, Brad Sherman, Wall Street Bailout, Finance Reform Legislation, Financial Services Regulation, Financial Services Committee, Brad Sherman Wall Street Bail Out, Brad Sherman Tarp on Steroids, Tarp on Steroids, Politics News

In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, it sounds like a reasonable idea: A proposal granting the White House broad new authority to take over w...

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Jason Linkins

Mark Fisher On Morning Meeting: Taxpayers Need To Get "Their Pound Of Flesh" From Bailout Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Dylan Ratigan, Mark Fisher, Bank Bailout, Too Big to Fail, Business News

On today's Morning Meeting, Dylan Ratigan took on the issue of bailouts for the few banks anointed as "too big to fail" with Mark Fisher, founder of M...

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Wall Street Posts Strong Gains on Knowledge It Can Do Whatever the F*** it Wants

Jerome Halligan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: U.S. Economy, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Wall Street Bonuses, Economy, Economic Crisis, Comedy News
Jerome Halligan

The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared above 10,000 again Tuesday, chiefly on the strength of a report that Wall Street executives can do "basically anything they f***ing want, whenever they f***ing want."

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Executive Pay Cuts? Hold the Standing Ovation

Stuart Whatley | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, TARP Money, Aig Bonuses, Financial Reform, Bank of America, Aig, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Bailout, Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Bonuses, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Regulation, Citigroup, Business News
Stuart Whatley

Yes, a quick round of applause for Feinberg for cutting our financial wards' CEO pay. But hold off on the standing ovation; the Obama era does not need a "Mission Accomplished" moment.

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Goldman Sachs Skirts Slashes in Compensation

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Aig Bonuses, Goldman Sachs Bailout, Aig, Henry Paulson, Kenneth Lewis, Goldman Sachs TARP, Goldman Sachs Profits, Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, Barack Obama, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

The Times shows its agenda when it refers to the not-yet-existing AIG bonuses slashes as "the humbling downfall of the once-proud giants" while all those pesky citizens won't stop with the "populist animosity."

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Neil Barofsky: Bailout Helped But At A Great Cost

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street, Bailout, Economy, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Neil Barofsky, Goverment Watchdogs, Economic Recovery, Business News

WASHINGTON — The man who watches over the $700 billion in government money given to banks and other institutions to avert a financial collapse said ...

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Middle Man

Jonathan Richards | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Taxes, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Comedy News
Jonathan Richards

If we're ever going to develop real financial stability, perhaps its time to consider eliminating the pesky middle man.

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Wall Street and the US Government: Where's Jimmy Stewart When We Need Him?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Tarp, Wall Street Bailout, Barney Frank, Maureen Dowd, Chris Dodd, Dylan Ratigan, Frank Rich, Chris Matthews, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Paulson, Jimmy Carter, Timothy Geithner, Jimmy Stewart, Wall Street Bonuses, Ralph Nader, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

With all the interest in the damage Wall Street has done, activity that's the opposite should draw some attention. But coverage of the corporate social responsibility movement is not yet an idea whose time has come.

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Time to Take on the Banks

Eric Lotke | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bank Regulation, Regulation, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Wall Street, Derivatives, Politics News
Eric Lotke

People didn't vote last November for laissez-faire capitalism and billion dollar bonuses. They didn't bail out banks that were too big to fail so they could take over banks that were smaller and did.

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Will Obama Save America From Capitalism?

David A. Love | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Capitalism: A Love Story, Wall Street Crisis, Capitalism, Michael Moore, Economic Stimulus Package, Economic Crisis, Business News, Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Tarp, Elizabeth Warren, Joseph Stiglitz, Citibank, Paul Krugman, Simon Johnson, Plutonomy, Bill Moyers, Citigroup, Income Inequality, Larry Summers, Wealth, Consumer Protection, Banking Crisis, Banks, Bank Bailout, Foreclosure, Health Care, Mortgage Crisis, Politics News
David A. Love

American-style capitalism is the system that gives you pilots buying groceries with food stamps and sheriffs throwing families out of their homes. President Obama, it's time for a "new" New Deal.

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Sacrificing to the Volcano God

Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Volcano God, Free Trade, Wall Street Bailout, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Karl Marx, Business News
Garrett Johnson

Hundreds of years ago the Incas would sacrifice virgins to appease their Volcano God. The Gods (the banks) and the methods (bailouts) may have changed, but the tradition remains.

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The Case For Dismantling Giant Banks

Lawrence G. McDonald | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Oprah Winfrey, Bankruptcy, Ken Lewis, Lehman Brothers, Richard Fuld, Bank of America, Financial Crisis, Risk Management, Citigroup, Keynote Speaker, Business News
Lawrence G. McDonald

These 21st century banks have become deadly, systemically risky dominoes that can crush us all if they fail, or can bankrupt us all with debt if we have to bail them out.

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Marcy Kaptur's Fight Club

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street, Bailout, Marcy Kaptur, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Capitalism, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Today, the New York Times announced the 100th small bank failure of 2009. Don't expect any mourning. The bank isn't named "JPMorgan Chase."

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Who Duped Rolling Stone Gonzo Reporter Matt Taibbi?

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, The Atlantic, Matt Taibbi, Naked Short Selling, Fraud Files Blog, Business Insider, Rolling Stone, Economic Policy Journal, Diane Tucker, Short Sellers, Clusterstock, Penson Financial Services, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Don Imus, Obama Wall Street Bonuses, Banks, Economy, Regulation, Merrill Lynch, Ceos, Magazines, Taibbi Victim of Hoax, Short Selling Hoax, Investment News, Dan Jamieson, John Carney, Megan McArdle, Gary Weiss, William K Wolfrum, Robert Wenzel, Penson's Letter to SEC, Tracy Coenen, Kid Dynamite, sequenceinc.com, Citigroup Stock, Citigroup, Naked Short Sellers, Matt Taibbi Teaches Short Selling, Bear Stearns Collapse, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Bear Stearns, Youtube, Business News
Diane Tucker

Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine's teen heartthrob, became a sensation last month after calling Goldman Sachs "a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."

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Arthur Delaney

Debtors' Revolt: Former Bank Of America Employee Boards The Bandwagon (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Credit Cards, Debtors Revolt, Bank of America, Bailouts, Banks, Wall Street, Recession, Down Not Out, Business News

A former Bank of America employee has joined the fledgling "debtors' revolt" movement. "I was an assistant branch manager for Bank of America for two...

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Wall Street: Too Big To Regulate

Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Financial Reform, Fdic, White House, Bank of America, Treasury Department, Hank Paulson, Willaim K. Black, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel, Federal Reserve, Timothy Geithner, Public Private Investment Program, Thomas Hoenig, Sheila Bair, Tarp, Business News
Garrett Johnson

How can the Treasury, White House, and Congress be so tone deaf to calls to stop the massive give-away to the same people who got us into this mess?

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The Bailout Blow-Up One Year Later: Has Washington Learned?

Eddie Reeves | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Economic Collapse, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Communications, Wall Street, Bailout, Business News
Eddie Reeves

For leaders who understand the value of well-executed strategic communications efforts, there are at least five key lessons to be learned from the bailout disaster one year ago.

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First ACORN. Citibank, AIG, Goldman Sachs Next?

The Yes Men | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Political Comedy, Economic Justice, Wall Street Bailout, Congress, Acorn, Bailout, Fox News, The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World, Media News
The Yes Men

We posed as Dow Chemical representatives at a big banking conference where we said that any number of human deaths is acceptable as long as a project is profitable. The bankers applauded.

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Where is the Progressive Agenda for the Great Recession? AWOL

Les Leopold | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Recession, Citigroup, Business News
Les Leopold

The banks that were too big to fail have actually gotten bigger. The consumer financial protection agency is getting watered down by bank lobbyists funded indirectly by our bailout.

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Obama at the United Nations

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Wall Street Bailout, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, Obama, Inside Obama's Brain, Healthcare Reform, Wall Street Bonuses, Foreign Policy, UN General Assembly, Politics News
Sasha Abramsky

Barack Obama has always been at his best when the setting enables him to explain his vision for transformative change through the use of broad historical themes and holistic analyses.

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