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Another viewpoint on Bear Stearns and the FED

…a share for a total of $236 million, this was less a “bailout” than a Fed-mediated liquidation sale. Bear wasn’t too big to fail after all, though there’s still the…

Reader Jack asks "Where DID the money go?"

…systemic banking crisis of proportions that would be several orders of magnitude larger than the S&L crisis, a crisis that ended up with a fiscal bailout cost of over $120…

Subprime becomes prime time lawsuits?

…facing foreclosure will be offered assistance from the Federal Housing Administration. But unfortunately, the “freeze” is just another fraud – and like the other bailout proposals, it has nothing to…

Corporate Pork: the Lease v. Buy Decision

…internal e-mail exchange among four senior Pentagon officials. “We all know that this is a bailout for Boeing,” Ronald G. Garant, an official of the Pentagon comptroller’s office, said in…

Crony Capitalists of the World – Unite

…that it is his money, let him consider carefully how Ms. Hayes might answer Mr. Buckley’s question. Update: BattlePanda is not happy about this United Airlines bailout but documents how…

Dividend Taxes

…yes cutting costs means layoffs. In this case the alternatives were probably bankruptcy or a government bailout. By 1996, IBM was back on track . How does all of this…

…flat-footed? In this case, the President’s strategists likely feared tough questions from governors facing massive budget shortfalls and, given the federal deficits, little prospect of a federal bailout (Federal bailouts