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Total Cost of the Financial Bailout To Date « Upstream

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Total Cost Of The Financial Bailout To Date. Jump to Comments. * $29 billion for Bear Stearns * $143.8 billion for AIG (thus far, it keeps growing) * $100 billion for Fannie Mae * $100 billion for Freddie Mac …
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Common Sense Political Thought » Archives » the Financial Bailout

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

The financial bailout . November 8th, 2008 by Johannes Magnus. I got this from a friend:. Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and …
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Eu Approves French Financial Bailout Plan | Welcome Everyone To …

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

BRUSSELS, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — The European Commission on Friday approved a French financial bailout plan designed to restore financial stability and shore.
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Bailing Out Detroit - Environment and Energy

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

… like a nice military jet or financial bailout . this is america, where you’re supposed to take your risk to gain your reward. they’ve tried repeatedly and failed . let them fail and let something new take their place. …
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Quintessential Quixotic Quagmire

Monday, October 27th, 2008

To recap the financial bailout largesse SO FAR: $170 billion stimulus package by President Bush in March 2008; $29 billion for Bear Stearns; $200 billion for Fannie & Freddie (but with an explicit guarantee for $5.2 trillion of their …
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Bailout Bill Not “New and Improved” After All

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday the resurrected financial bailout bill isn’t perfect but warned that the nation’s financial crisis will become a full-fledged disaster if the plan fails . …
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Currently (Product) Red has: American Express, Apple Computer …

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Financial crisis Has the 2 trillion financial bailout package failed ? Money doesn’t go as far these days everybody know that. But has the 2 trillion 2000000000000 injection into the financial markets by governments around the world …
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Festival of Stocks #110

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Failed Financial Bailout Leads To Worst Point Drop In Stock Market History posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Events have transpired very quickly over the last few weeks in the financial industry and …
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Swimming Lessons For Washington and Wall Street?the Predators’ Bailout

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Anyhow, back to that financial bailout and the arrogance assumed by those who are proposing it and those who will vote for it. Every time I hear about a CEO of some corporation that fails getting a multimillion dollar compensation …
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Why Financial Bailouts Will Fail

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

The whole point of the financial bailout is to restore people’s confidence in the machinery of business, the economic system itself. But there is a logical flaw at the center of it as a mechanism to shore up public trust: the very …
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