calculatedriskblog.com - 5/18/2009
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From Bloomberg: Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley Said to Apply for TARP Exit Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley applied to repay the combined $45 billion they received in October from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, said people familiar with the ...
kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com - 5/16/2009
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Speaking near Albuquerque, New Mexico, at a town-hall
meeting on Thursday, Pres. Obama said the federal debt...
load is unsustainable and warned of skyrocketing interest rates. He neglected to say that his massive spending-and-borrowing policies are ...
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From TARP to Obama to Command-and-Control
cboblog.cbo.gov - 5/26/2009
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The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) gives the
Department of the Treasury authority to purchase or insure...
up to $700 billion of outstanding assets at any one time. Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which provided that ...
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businessinsider.com - 5/15/2009
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timgeithner-angry_tbi.jpg Update: It appears the Telegraph has taken
down the article after complaints about its veracity. We're...
looking into this further. Original post: The TARP and PPIP have no shortage of critics, and normally it wouldn't be news ...
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TARP Benificary Calls Program A "Sham" And ...
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But what about ... In the news: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley applied to repay the combined $45 billion they received in October from the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, said people familiar with the matter.But what about the money funneled to them via AIG? Payments "at par" (100 cents on the dollar) even though the contracts were trading at substantial discounts and could have been settled for much less. We're supposed to forget that. ...
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sistertoldjah.com 4/6/2009 — (H/T - Lawhawk )
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