All Posts Tagged With: "bailout"

Baby, You Can Drive My Car

Fine print disclosure: Driving my car may require $50 billion in cash to guarantee it reaches production.

Dear Diary,

There was a time, not so many months ago, when I would express my ideas regarding which equities or mutual funds were…

15Nov2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Where’s the Bailout Now?

The U.S. has been dishing out the bailout funds at a truly stunning pace.  It wasn’t too long ago when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received those first capital infusions.  Since then, so much money has been dolled out that…

11Nov2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Federal Government Grants AIG a New Bailout Package

American International Group Inc. (AIG) got a $150 billion government rescue package – almost double the initial bailout deal of less than two months ago and the largest ever granted to a private U.S. company – as the ailing insurer continues to…

11Nov2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Government provides record aid package to AIG

By JEANNINE AVERSA
AP Economics Writer

(AP:WASHINGTON) In a record bailout of a private company, the government on Monday provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American International Group, including $40 billion for partial ownership.

The action, announced by…

10Nov2008 | INO | 0 comments | Continued

Government Won’t Extend $700 Billion Bailout Plan to U.S. “Big Three”

The U.S. Treasury Department has rejected General Motors Corp.’s (GM) request of $10 billion in assistance for its potential merger with Chrysler LLC after the Bush Administration decided it didn’t want to broaden its $700 billion financial rescue program to include…

4Nov2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

The Current Crisis: Causes and Consequences

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Adrian Day’s reputation for discovering big winners adds credibility to the global investing pioneer’s insights, which he is sharing with The Gold Report  via excerpts from recent articles in Adrian Day’s Global Analyst. Acknowledging what trying times…

17Oct2008 | The Gold Report | 0 comments | Continued

Marc Faber says $250 billion dollar bailout is meaningless

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s sweeping measures to bailout the financial system will probably fail, Marc Faber, editor & publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, tells CNBC’s Asia Squawk Box.

"What I object to in…

15Oct2008 | The Real Deal | 0 comments | Continued

Got Pork?

All of this pork was pulled from the table of contents of the $850 billion bailout. Here’s the United States of America’s congress hard at work. What a joke.

Sec. 101: Extension of alternative minimum tax relief for nonrefundable personal credits.
Sec.…

3Oct2008 | The Real Deal | 0 comments | Continued

The Bull Market No One is Talking About

The financial world didn’t get its relief yesterday. The bailout plan and any accompanying reprieve just weren’t in the cards. The Dow tumbled and investors rushed to the exits.

I’m not going to harp on the bad news again, I’m…

1Oct2008 | Q1 Publishing | 1 comment | Continued

Bailouts, Politics, & Wall Street

While politicians played politics, markets moved. Money raced out of stocks ($800 billion in equity was wiped out on the S&P alone today) and commodities and into ’safety havens.’ Those havens were treasuries and gold…ironic if you think about it.…

30Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Dodge the Pitfalls and Uncover the Profits From the $700 Billion Banking System Bailout

With the exception of a few curmudgeonly old Republicans, there has been general rejoicing at U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson’s $700 billion banking system bailout. Indeed, to hear some commentators you would think it was cost free - they…

23Sep2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Credit Crunch Claims Two More (Part 2)

Much has happened in the 48 short hours since the first part of this two part series was published. I’m not too interested in the Lehman Brothers garage sale, or the $34 million that Merrill’s CEO, John Thain, will receive…

18Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Fannie and Freddie: Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Easy Al Greenspan has stepped out of his cave and opened his big fat mouth again. This time, Al felt it necessary to propose that the United States of America have specific “laws that authorize the Treasury to use taxpayer…

9Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

FDIC Quandary Could Stick U.S. Taxpayers With the Tab for the U.S. Credit Crisis

The “Bailout Bens” are at it again.

I’m talking, of course, about U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, who’s clearly decided it will be “bailouts for all.”

Why is this problematic? Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila C. Bair…

4Sep2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

Congress Mortgages the Economy’s Future to Save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

With President Bush no longer threatening a veto, the subprime mortgage and Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) “bailout” bill sailed through Congress. In anticipation of its enactment, Congress had the foresight to raise the national debt limit to $10.6 trillion.…

29Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued
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