tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/26/2009
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The new administration and Congress are busy preparing the second tranche of bailout money for Wall Street -- TARP II -- at the same time they're developing a new set of regulations to make sure Wall Street doesn't get into this kind of mess again. But will the old politics intrude?
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ft.com - 1/30/2009
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President Barack Obama lashed out on Thursday at
“shameful” Wall Street executives for claiming billions of dollars
in bonuses while their stricken institutions asked taxpayers for support. Mr Obama was responding to a report showing that financial ...
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FT.com / US & Canada - Obama slams Wall Street over ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009
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I'm watching Andrea Mitchell interview David Broder in
what's amounting to a sort of parody of High
Broderism. But setting aside the unsupported a priori assumption that a bill with input from both parties is necessarily better than a bill put ...
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Talking Points Memo —
How much TARP money should be spent on lobbying Congress to loosen the restrictions on getting TARP money in the first place?
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Banks Are Using Your Money to Lobby for More Money
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
Via the Sunlight Foundation blog, an excellent suggestion from Robert Reich:
...what's happened to the Wall Street campaign contributions and to [Wall Street's] lobbyists? They're still going strong. We now know that many of the financial giants that have been bailed out by taxpayers continue to finance a platoon of Washington lobbyists, who are at this moment trying to influence TARP II and the next attempt to regulate Wall Street....
Would it not be a reasonable condition for receiving additional bailout funds ...
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swamppolitics.com 2/11/2009 — by Frank James
Vikram Pandit, Citigroup's chief executive officer, is really, really sorry his company was going to buy that French-made private jet and it won't happen again.
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