volokh.com - 1/23/2009
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The Washington Times notes today that many of the recipients of federal bailout funds are also major political donors:...
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 ...
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 ...
Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients
washingtonindependent.com 2/18/2009 — 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 ...
Americans Want Details Before Release of More TARP Funds
gallup.com 1/15/2009 — PRINCETON, NJ -- A majority of Americans (62%) say Congress should block President-elect Obama's request to release the remaining $350 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds until more details are provided about how the funds will be ...
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...
This Is What Taxpayers Are Getting For TARP
wizbangblog.com 1/25/2009 — Former Merrill Lynch chief John Thain, the architect of the firm's sale last year to Ken Lewis' Bank of America, was lauded for selling the company at a time when...
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 ...
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 ...
A feeling thermometer for TARP —
First Read 1/22/2009
From NBC's Mike ViqueiraAs a purely academic exercise, you might want to watch the House floor now as they vote on whether to disapprove the allocation of the second $350 billion of the TARP. The vote is essentially a freebie, in that no matter what ...
House gives symbolic thumbs-down on TARP cash —
Reuters: Politics 1/22/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a symbolic gesture of dissatisfaction with the government's attempts to stabilize the financial system, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 270-155 on Thursday against releasing a second allotment of $350 billion to the ...
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