dailykos.com - 2/15/2009
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swamppolitics.com - 2/15/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by James Oliphant An effort to curb executive
pay at the nation's most troubled banks, inserted at...
the last minute into Congress' mammoth economic stimulus bill, has sparked an outcry from financial services groups and others who warn the caps ...
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Stimulus exec pay caps roil financial sector
washingtonindependent.com - 2/18/2009
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washingtonindependent.com —
new report out of the Treasury Department Tuesday
confirmed what many lawmakers, housing advocates, small businesses and...
individual consumers have known all along: That despite hundreds of billions of dollars flowing from Washington to the finance ...
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Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients
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TARP
Balloon Juice —
Surprise good news in the TARP bill that President Obama just signed. I could get used to this.
A provision buried deep inside the $787 billion economic stimulus bill would impose restrictions on executive bonuses at financial institutions that are much tougher than those proposed 10 days ago by the Treasury Department.
The provision, inserted by Senate Democrats over the objections of the Obama administration, is aimed at companies that have received financial bailout funds. It would prohibit cash bonuses and almost all other ...
Let’s Make Sense!
The Mahablog —
... is the name of a game I’ve just invented. I’m still working on the rules, but the basic idea is to sniff out bits of public discourse that don’t make sense. By this I don’t mean bits I disagree with, or even bits that are not factual (although there are plenty of those, and they are not ruled out). I mean things that are just plain disconnected from standard human cognitive processes.
Tim F. at Balloon Juice found a great example. There’s a provision in the stimulus bill that would cap the pay of financial institution executives. ...
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TARP
balloon-juice.com 2/15/2009 — Surprise good news in the TARP bill that President Obama just signed. I could get used to this.
A provision buried deep inside the $787 billion economic stimulus bill would impose restrictions on executive bonuses at financial institutions that ...
There’s no way out of TARP
sistertoldjah.com 4/6/2009 — (H/T - Lawhawk )
Back at my regular home, both my co-blogger Shoebox and I have been monitoring attempts, some successful, others not, by banks to get out from under the Troubled Assets Relief Program. In today’s Wall Street Journal , Stuart ...
Kudlow on TARP
wizbangblog.com 4/23/2009 — Larry Kudlow's new piece at NRO, a reaction to the TARP Inspector General's report, is a must-read: The IG's report also notes that what started last October as a single-purpose...
TARP: The Looming Debacle
powerlineblog.com 4/28/2009 — On April 21, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009--"SIGTARP"--submitted his quarterly report to Congress on his office's activities in relation to the TARP program. The report is a disquieting document that ...
Adventures in Lobbying
openleft.com 1/26/2009 — When I offered in a blog thread to go lobby on TARP oversight and reform while I was in DC, little did I know that I was going to be asked to write about it on Open Left. It's a challenge to rise to the standards set by all the wonderful writers ...
TARP Watchdog: Treasury Overpaid For TARP Investments
money.cnn.com 2/5/2009 — WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The three government watchdogs overseeing the $700 billion financial rescue package continued to criticize the Treasury Department's implementation of the plan, suggesting a lack of a strategic vision and raising the concern ...
Editors: The TARP Trap
article.nationalreview.com 4/23/2009 — If some banks want to pay back their TARP money, we should let them.
TARP, the Criminal Enterprise?
corner.nationalreview.com 4/22/2009 — Is the whole TARP plan a criminal enterprise? Sounds farfetched, I suppose. But after reading about Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky's report, it may well be that TARP is just one big criminal problem.
Listen to this: Barofsky's investigators ...
Pelosi-Frank letter to auto companies —
First Read 2/13/2009
From NBC's Mike Viqueira When we last left the auto bailout story, GM and Chrysler were the beneficiaries of a stop-gap loan from the taxpayers, via the TARP.
The money came on the condition that the companies present a plan on how they would ...
Frank's 'told you so' on housing —
First Read 2/13/2009
From NBC’s Abby Livingston The New Yorker recently quoted Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank saying, “Everybody likes to say ‘I told you so.’ I have found personally that it is one of the few pleasures that ...
Breaking down the House stimulus vote —
First Read 2/13/2009
From NBC’s Mike Viqueira Here's your quick down-and-dirty guide to the House vote on the stimulus.
There were seven Dems joining Republicans in opposition: Colin Peterson (MN), Gene Taylor (MS), Peter DeFazio (OR), Bobby Bright (AL), ...
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