Mark Thomawrites a reminder that there is more to news than the bailout, and makes connections….

…series will be quite revealing… .I.G.F.P. It was run with almost complete autonomy, and with an iron hand, by Joseph J. Cassano, according to current and former A.I.G. employees. A…

…much faster will the rate rise? Technically relatively budget neutral bailout loans in the short run is true, but the government can set value by simply paying for “assets”. What…

…Department have said no to using taxpayer money to bailout Lehman Brothers, a position I have spoken about throughout this campaign. We are carefully monitoring the financial markets, including the…

…to keep them solvent. Second, the sort of private bailout (Bailin in Roubini’s terms) that failed this weekend would have worked on the Continent. If the minister of the treasury…

…WTF is this?!? 6. During the prior 5 interventions, the VIX was at cyclical record highs. This time, the VIX was at a much more modest level (22) Weekend Bailout…

…more leftist economy than the US (ie all of them) has similar institutions.—————– Of course such a bailout means that the government has taken upon themselves massive amounts of debt,…

…prompting the federal government to prepare for a potential taxpayer bailout of the company. This month, Fannie Mae reported that loans from 2006 and 2007 accounted for almost 60 percent…

…failed miserably at it—are being saved by the form of the bailout, while the cost—again, judging by the lessons of the slow-motion S&L meltdown—will be increasing for the taxpayers. The…

Bailouts and Moral Hazard by Robert Here we are again, just into a Bear (sterns) market and we have to face the fact that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are…