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10 Huge Bailouts From the Financial Meltdown

By: steph10

The Huffington Post has reported that it has been a little over a year since Congress and former President Bush gave the Treasury Department the authority to distribute hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to failing banks, auto manufacturers, and AIG. The Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bailouts, in the amounts of $50.7 billion and $44.9 billion, ...

about 1 month ago

A Good Question and a Good Answer

By: amalgam80

You know sometimes a reporter asks a good question and the person getting interviewed gives a great answer.   This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory asked the Secretary of State, Timothy Geithner “Do you want to see AIG to be successful?”   Geithner paused for a millisecond and said that he wants AIG to be ...

27 days ago

Predictions Of Financial Giants Earlier This Year

By: mpalevsky

NEW YORK -- "As you might have realized by now, we're in a difficult situation," said billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros to a sold-out crowd at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30, 2009. Though Soros earned over $1 billion last year, eighteen months into a housing crisis and after over a year of decreasing GDP it's ...

25 days ago

Liberal Globalist Bob Dole Says Health Care Reform Will Pass

By: Ross1776

As published by the liberally focused Huffington Post, fellow liberal globalist Bob Dole, former Senate majority leader during the Clinton Administration, chastized members of Congress publicly, mainly in his own "corporate" party, for fighting the unconstitutionally focused health care reform measures that have been offered up so far for mostly ...

about 1 month ago