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Thievery Under TARP - Robert Scheer

AIG is just one example in a bailout that has left the financial conglomerates unsupervised as they spend taxpayer money in what the report termed a government program of "unprecedented scope, scal...
  • theFilipinoMind published this 11 / 18 / 2009
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Joseph Stiglitz_ the Financial Crisis is the Fruit of Dishonesty

Dishonesty in the finance sector dragged us here, and Washington looks ill-equipped to guide us out
  • theFilipinoMind published this 11 / 17 / 2009
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Capitalist Fools

Greenspan presided over not one but two financial bubbles. After the high-tech bubble popped, in 2000–2001, he helped inflate the housing bubble.
  • theFilipinoMind published this 11 / 17 / 2009
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The Value of the “Too Big to Fail” Big Bank Subsidy

One outcome of the TARP and other bank rescue efforts following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008 is that the United States has essentially formalized a commitment to a “too big ...
  • cepr published this 09 / 30 / 2009
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Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) Results

Results from the bank stress test undertaken by the Treasury against the 19 largest bank holding companies in the US. Claims that banks need only $75B more in capital under the Treasury's "more ad...
  • earl published this 05 / 07 / 2009
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Should Banks Be Nationalized by Roger Lawson of the UK Shareholders Association

In this letter, Roger Lawson, communications director of the UK Shareholders' Association states the association's rejection of the terms of government bailout of troubled British banks.
  • Customs Street Advisors published this 04 / 02 / 2009
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RAB Capital Letter to Northern Rock Shareholders Soliciting for Support at the Forthcoming EGM (Janu

Letter from RAB Capital to shareholders of Northern Rock soliciting for support for its proposals at the troubled bank's January 15, 2008 extraordinary shareholder meeting.
  • Customs Street Advisors published this 03 / 17 / 2009
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Financial Meltdown 2008

A compendium of articles and editorials on the Financial meltdown and bank bailout programs
  • brown.mel337 published this 11 / 18 / 2008
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