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Friday, October 23, 2009 Grass is greener where bonuses are sky-high TOOLBOX Resize Print E-mail By Judith Stein and Biodun Iginla of the Economist and BBC News Friday, October 23, 2009 NEW YORK -- Even before the Obama administration formally...
Tags: bailouts, bbc news biodun iginla, bbc news. judith stein
The Federal Reserve on Thursday moved to limit risky pay practices at all the nation's banks even as the Treasury's executive paymaster announced drastic cuts in pay for the biggest government bailout recipients. Altogether, the pay curbs represent an...
Tags: bailouts, U.S. Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Barack Obama, executive pay, pay czar
Theft is defined as “the dishonest taking of the property of another person”. And, on that basis, many managers or directors of companies are thieves. Because companies — any corporate entities — are legal persons that managers...
Tags: theft, corporations, unemployment, job losses, bailouts, retraining, economy, upturn, over capacity, over production, unrest, Sasol, trade unions, oil, fuel
As soon as government gets involved in private industry – it falls apart. Such is the case with the mortgage bubble and subsequent collapse, then the bailouts and even worse the FHA loan program. The mortgage burst was caused by minority...
Much this past week has been in the U.S. press with respect to the GM "joint venture." (The only other story being that of the crime at the Holocaust Museum, by the 89 year old American World War II enlistee, then also reported to be a former "Nazi...
Tags: America, Constitution, GM, bailouts, freedom, liberty, federal, government, Congress, national, defense, war, drug, cartels, merger, China
The Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org) has compiled a listing of the top individual contributors during the 2008 election cycle. No surprise, the top donations came from the bailout recipients, banks and financial institutions, and mainstream...
Tags: United States, election, campaign, 2008, bank, bailouts, corporate, donations, Republicans, Democrats, Congress, Obama, McCain
By MICHAEL WEBSTER: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. AP – Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. listens to witness testimony on Capitol Hill WASHINGTON — Senate Banking committee...
Tags: Sen: Dodd, Government reform, Oversight, Christopher Dodd, Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner, Bailouts, Banking Bailouts, bonuses, AIG, Dodd Amendment, Stimulus package, campaign donations
President Barack Obama's speech this morning was a two-edged sword. In the land so proud of Free Enterprise. It must behoove everyone that now after bailing out banks, the Government must now become an odd kind of "car dealership". Applying pressure...
Tags: obama, car industry, bailouts
The Examiner's Julie Mason does a helpful recap of the spending the government has been doing since President Obama took office: "a $2 trillion financial services bailout, a $788 billion stimulus package, the $13.4 billion preliminary bailout for automakers,...
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I was blown away with the Idiocy and audacity of Senator Schumer spending our money that we have not earned yet and publicly announcing that people do not care about “tiny” pork projects! My eye we don’t...
Tags: President Obama, Congress, Bailouts