" In September last year, the Bush regime left behind its old refrain that “the fundamentals of the economy are strong,” and went to Congress for a quick $700B to bail out collapsing banks stuck with toxic...
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There has been much anticipation as to whether the second half of the $700 billion bailout fund would be released or not. The Obama administration is looking forward to its first legislative triumph if ever the...
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The news shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone when the Time magazine announces its Person of the Year 2008 this morning, and the person is, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. ...
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The International Institute of Nonviolence News&Opinion By: Rev. Jermano It is pretty amazing stuff that the Fed is now bailing out Citigroup troubles by announcing today a 20 billion dollar injection...
opinion by djermano | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 613 views | 1 recommendation | 8 comments
Senator James "more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment [of tortured detainees]" Inhofe-R OK, has said that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made warnings of martial law, a new great depression and civil unrest on a conference call about 2 weeks before the...
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 503 views | 13 recommendations | 4 comments
Only a moronic cleric in denial could confuse the recent seismic shift in American politics with simply a different political perspective of the future. Not to be too intimidating to those that were on the outgoing GOP tide – ’Obamamatics’ brings to the table...
Washington is still unsettled as to how to handle the foreclosure crisis."Last November 11, the administration publicized the government’s $ 700 billion plan to refinance delinquent loans controlled by mortgage companies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The already passed...
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Naomi Klein, author of the best-selling "Shock Doctrine" about capitalist exploitation of disaster for profit, comments on the Wall Street Bailout, the Federal Reserve extending $2 trillion in emergency loans without disclosing recipients or collateral, the Treasury's illegal...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 146 views | 5 recommendations | 4 comments
The International Institute of Nonviolence News&Opinion By: Rev. Jermano The 700 billion USD bank rescue was about passing legislation to help TARP: Troubled Asset Recovery Program. Since...
opinion by djermano | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1358 views | 13 recommendations | 5 comments
The US Treasury, under cover of the uproar over the Wall Street Bailout, issued a notice in which it claimed authority to overturn Section 382 of the Tax Code, a two-decade old law created to stop mega-conglomerates from using shell companies to hide losses and avoid taxes....
created by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 384 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
The privately-owned Federal Reserve Corporation is giving away another $2 Trillion in taxpayer's money under rules that were mostly made up in the last 15 months as their economic shell game began to fall apart with the collapse of the Wall Street-inflated housing market...
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The U.S. Treasury will name Neel Kashkari, assistant secretary at the department, to head the new Office of Financial Stability and manage the administration of the $700 billion bailout plan. Neel Kashkari...
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Daniel Gross, contributing to Slate.com, writes ".... It's massively leveraged. It's buying distressed assets. It's taking equity stakes ....", like a hedge fund, his assertion in the article,...
created by Karen Hatter | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 218 views | 13 recommendations | 12 comments
The news is not getting any better..."Swiss investor Marc Faber, known for a long track record of good calls (he was a commodities bull until late this spring, for instance, when he reversed his view) and a fine grasp of financial markets history, confirms the estimate...
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Forget bi-partisanship. The GOP can't even agree amongst themselves on a bail out package. Earlier today Bush made a desperate plea to lawmakers to come together and John McCain decided to abandon the...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 100 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments