Thursday, September 6, 2012

Wall street bailouts

  • AIG to sell $2B in AIA shares, repay US gov't

    It received $182 billion from the U.S. government - the biggest of the Wall Street bailout packages - after suffering massive losses from investments in derivatives.

    online.wsj.com

  • LETTER: Investors hurt by auto bailout

    I also lost a little money due to Teacher's Retirement Fund buying discounted (.48 on dollar?) Chrysler junk bonds from Wall Street peddlers in '08 that "guaranteed" 8% return. The State of Indiana also wasted my tax dollars fighting the bailout to the ...

    www.courierpress.com

  • Bailouts and bribes: 'Red September' bares all

    According to the film's website, "In September 2008, the unified forces of the Bush administration, Wall Street and leadership on both sides of the aisle rammed the Wall Street bailout through Congress. In the years that followed, the United States ...

    www.wnd.com

  • Book Review: Bailout, by Neil Barofsky

    The above quote and its underlying story is for the most part the tale within Neil Barofsky's Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. Barofsky, the original (and now former) special inspector ...

    www.forbes.com

  • A Wall Street bailout that wasn't so bad

    Of all the Wall Street bailouts amid the Panic of 2008, none was more despised than the $182 billion lifeline for American International Group.

    www.southbendtribune.com

  • Elizabeth Warren Speech: 'We Build It Together'

    We want you to run the panel overseeing the Wall Street bailout, he told her. "Are you sure?" Warren quizzed the Senate majority leader.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Wall Street And Washington Share Millions Of Dollars, Lot Of People

    Neil Barofsky, the former bailout watchdog, has been an especially outspoken critic, deriding both the Obama and Bush administrations for allowing their relationship with Wall Street to color the results of the bailout. If the message isn't clear, the ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • AIG bailout: A terrible idea that worked

    Of all the Wall Street bailouts amid the Panic of 2008, none was more despised than the $182 billion lifeline for American International Group.

    www.philly.com

  • Mandel ad moves to anti-bailout message

    "Every Democrat and every Republican who took our tax dollars and used them to bail out Wall Street banks was dead wrong.

    www.politico.com

  • Premature Celebration? Euro's Hopes Hinge on German High Court

    Even as Wall Street celebrates the European Central Bank's latest crisis measures, the ability of the besieged eurozone to avoid a painful breakup could actually be decided next week by a handful of judges in Karlsruhe, Germany.

    www.foxbusiness.com

  • Hundreds Protest Coal, Bailouts, Wars—and Obama

    The turnout was far smaller than the 5,000 that organizers, working under the umbrella name of March on Wall Street South, had hoped to draw.

    www.nationaljournal.com

  • Fed Rejected by Republican Delegates as Wall Street Gets Pass

    The U.S. Federal Reserve is bad for the economy, Wall Street has been punished enough for the 2008 financial crisis and the auto bailout was a mistake, according to a survey of delegates to the Republican National Convention. As Mitt Romney prepares to ...

    www.businessweek.com

  • Paul's Alarm on Bailout Not Shown in Markets: Reality Check

    The Background: The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, passed under the Bush administration in 2008 after the collapse of financial markets, is unpopular.

    www.businessweek.com

  • 'Burn Wall Street:' Otto Von Danger's Interactive Installation Sends Message ...

    Burn Wall Street. Wall Street -- or at least flammable copies of some of its major landmarks -- burned to the ground Saturday night in a pyrotechnic protest staged at the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • No letup from DNC protesters, public in anger toward banks, Wall Street

    That banks should be a primary protest target at a political event is a reflection of the public anger still simmering toward Wall Street, even four years after the $700 billion federal bank bailout and months after Occupy encampments have all but ...

    www.loansafe.org

  • US Planning $1B Egypt Bailout

    (Newser) - American diplomats are close to finalizing a $1 billion bailout package to help save an Egyptian economy battered by political upheaval, reports the Wall Street Journal. The aid package, which includes debt relief and assistance for small ...

    www.newser.com

  • Paul Ryan's Tea Party Problem: Voted for Bailouts (Before He Was Against It)

    "Madam Speaker, this bill offends my principles, but I'm gonna vote for this bill in order to preserve my principles." This Ryan flip-flop comes from his 2008 House floor speech in support of TARP, the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • "Wall Street South" Protesters Say Obama Has Betrayed His Liberal Base

    "They gave a bailout to wall street, but right now we're representing the Bronx. The poorest community in the country and we didn't get a bailout," said Rod Starz. The activists mentioned other issues -- anti-war, abortion rights and immigration ...

    www.ny1.com

  • "Wall Street South" protesters say Obama has betrayed his liberal base

    "They gave a bailout to wall street, but right now we're representing the Bronx. The poorest community in the country and we didn't get a bailout," said Rod Starz. The activists mentioned other issues -- anti-war, abortion rights and immigration ...

    rochester.ynn.com

  • Is another federal bailout coming?

    Wall Street? The federal government stepped in with the Troubled Asset Relief Program. General Motors? Uncle Sam again. Greece, Spain and Portugal?

    articles.baltimoresun.com

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