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Price tag for Government led Wall Street Bailout… $1.3 trillion… saving the US Economy from collapse… Priceless
As a conservative - I’m willing to pay the 1.3T dollars to save the US economy… just like I was willing to spend over a trillion dollars fighting for freedom in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in the Global War on Terrorism. This threat to the United States needed to be dealt with and in a logical way… because stability in the US markets is priceless.
Can Congress Bailout the US financial System? Should it?
(Washington, D.C. ; Right Commentary): To the American Public, the current financial crisis has many villains but none upon whom clearly to pin the blame. Taxpayers are angry at the notion of having to bail out banks, headed by millionaires, whom they believe cheated them out of values in their homes, and in some cases, [...]
What a Lehman Brothers Bank failure could mean for the US economy and banking system.
Even if Lehman can find a buyer, the venerable bank founded by Mayer Lehman in 1850, will be gone forever. Leaving only Goldman Sachs as the final bank standing of those banks that became New York financial titans founded by Jewish immigrants of the mid 1800’s.
Unwinding Mess - IndyMac, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae
On Friday, the first unavoidable evidence that the credit crunch continues burst forth to center stage. The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC) were forced to take control of IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. IndyMac’s failure marks one of the largest bank failures in history, and is the largest bank failure [...]
Apparently… things are tough all over…
(London, UK - The Press Association): Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French president Nicolas Sarkozy will this week call on banks to come clean about the scale of their bad debts, in the hope of restoring stability to the international money markets.
Global financial turbulence will be top of the agenda at the premiers’ summit at [...]
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