Right Pundits:
The United States Postal Service lost almost $4 billion dollars last year, it stands to lose another $7.8 billion (by their own estimation) next year. So what’s the solution? Postal Service bailout of course; at the present t (Read More)
Submitted by canadaone
from blog:
Kansas.comTiahrt: Time to end Wall Street bailout programKansas City StarIt's similar to imigration. Let's enforce current imigration law, then see where it is lacking. An unenforced law or regulation has no value, …Tiahrt bi (Read More)
India Times:
The financial bailout packages by various governments would only help to enlarge the profit avenues of corporate houses, according to communist leaders from around the world. (Read More)
New York Times:
A government report on the bailout of A.I.G. is must reading for taxpayers looking to know why the $182 billion “rescue” is the most troubling episode of the financial disaster.
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Rest of World-World-The Times of India:
Green shoots, bailout, metrosexual, 9/11. Often, a single word or phrase is all it takes to encapsulate major historic events and significant socio-economic trends ... (Read More)
National Review Online:
Sen. Harry Reid needs 60 Senate votes to pass his health-care bill and, as Jonathan Karl of ABC News reported last night, is attempting to bribe Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to be the 60th vote by shoveling money into her (Read More)
Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee:
The Humble Libertarian thinks GOP money-man Lee Beaman may have something to do with the move to oust Matt Collins from Davidson County GOP:I’m especially interested to know because part of the controversy over Matt Collins i (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Earlier this week, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a k a, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is (Read More)
India Times:
Earlier this week, the inspector-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, aka, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adding to lawmaker criticism of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's performance is a new survey released on Friday showing 42 percent of Americans say he has done a "poor job" handling the credit (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
Last week, in response to the 2009 elections and the November jobs report, Senate majority leader Harry Reid came up with the idea of passing a new jobs bill. Open Left was able to quickly confirm that the House was working (Read More)
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha:
If Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner doesn’t know how to get appropriately compensated for the loans / bailouts that he keeps approving on behalf of the United States Government then he shouldn’t be giving out these loans a (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
When the late Joerg Haider, the hard-right populist governor of the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, sold most of his government’s stake in Hypo Group Alpe Adria in 2007, he said, beaming: “Ladies and Gentlemen, Carinthi (Read More)
Autoblog:
Greenlings: What's the difference between kW and kWh? The h makes all the difference. Japan EV Club creams Tesla range record with Tokyo to Os (Read More)
Submitted by jackmason
from blog:
1. Global Warming (2000)
2. 9/11 (2001)
3. Obama (2008)
4. Bailout (2008)
5. Evacuee/refugee (2005): (Survivors of Katrina who had to be rescued)
6. Derivative (2007)
7. Google (2007)
8. Surge (2007)
9. Chinglish (2005) (Read More)
New York Times:
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told a joint economic committee that the government would close the $700 billion program “as soon as we can.”
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New York Times:
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said Thursday that the government would end its $700 billion bailout program "as soon as we can," and that part of it would be used to lower the record deficit. (Read More)
CNN:
As the Obama administration considers how to approach the next phase of the $700 billion financial bailout, questions are being raised on Capitol Hill about whether it is helping the economy. (Read More)