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Bank of America to Repay $45 Billion in Tarp

BofA to Repay $45 Billion in TARPBank of America to Repay Entire $45 Billion in TARP to U.S. Taxpayers Company to Increase Capital, Enhancing Tier 1 Common Capital Ratio Press Release from BofA Bank of America to Repay Entire $45 Billion in TARP to U.S. Taxpayers From CNBC:...

2009 Wall Street Bonuses: $140 Billion in Taxpayer Money

This past summer, angry tea baggers yelled, screamed and berated Democrat lawmakers over government spending on health care. There was also a protest in Washington D.C. over the taxpayer dollars being used to...

Charlotte Foreclosure Homes Rising, TARP Not Helping

The number of Charlotte foreclosure homes rose another record high in August. Industry experts said that the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) failed to prevent thousands of homeowners in North Carolina from losing their properties to foreclosures. "...

AIG and C Stock Quote Rebound: Market Quotes

In Q2, AIG can quote a $1.82 B net income. The results are the first profit reported for the company since 2007. AIG's stock price rallied up 7.8 % due to the Q2 financial report in addition to the positive market indicators on the economy: The monthly unemployment index...

Meadowcraft Jobs on the Line in central Alabama

Everyone tells us the economy is bad and credit is tight, but the economic crisis is personal for thirteen hundred people in Central Alabama.  Plantation Patterns, a subsidiary of Meadowcraft, Inc..with plants in Wadley and Selma has been in bankruptcy since March 20 and...

THE OBAMA DEBACLE?

Despite overheated rhetoric by its defenders, history will not prove kind to George W. Bush and his foreign policy decisions that have been or well be debacles. The Obama administration is quite right to argue repeatedly that the Bush team left behind a foreign policy mess...

CIT Stock Spikes on News of Bondholder Deal

CIT Group, which had been flirting with bankruptcy, has secured some last-minute funding. The news sparked a massive surge in CIT stock. The US federal government had given CIT Group over $2 billion in TARP funding, and recently turned down a request for yet more financial...

List of 10 U.S. Big Banks Approved to Repay $68 Billion Bailout

The U.S.Treasury Department has approved 10 of the country's largest banks to begin repaying $68 billion in bailout money. The banks have been eager to repay the money received through the government's Troubled Asset...

Obama, "Moving Chairs Around"

I Guess Moving Chairs Around and Lobbyists in the White House was not Such a Bad Idea By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com, Iron Mill Interactive Media, Inc This writer followed Barack Obama around the...

Geithner Updates Congress on Government Foreclosures Program

Secretary Geithner presented updates on TARP, the banking sector and the government foreclosures program before members of the Congressional Oversight Panel on Tuesday. " The uncertainty surrounding the health of...

$9.9 Billion for Banks under Government Foreclosures Program

Now six major banks have $9.9 billion to motivate them to help distressed homeowners save their homes from private lender or government foreclosures.  For each loan successfully modified, lenders could get up to $4,500 in total incentives."Now six of the country’s...

Band-Aid Still Stuck on Big Bailout Banks

" 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...

Comprehensive 10 Year Review of AIG's Accounting Practices

AIG now stands for "arrogance, incompetence and greed" ...according to U.S. House Representative Paul Hodes (D-NH). Now it ratchets way up... U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), said AIG executives should follow...

Attorneys General's Probes Reveal AIG's Boundless Greed

In light of the fact that Wall Street, over the years, has a habit of paying big bonuses even when the companies are reporting large losses. By the same token, in the recent years, state attorneys general have been...

NY Attorney General Cuomo Revealed Details of AIG Bonuses

“Spending a billion dollars on retention payments while the company is on its deathbed is ludicrous, particularly when some of those payments are going to employees the company plans to terminate,” said...

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