…rates have been kept constant, right where GW left them. The bailout was kept the same. What exactly did he change? Which leads to the same question for Democrats too:…

…claims that his business expertise shows that he knows how to create 12 million jobs. This guy who thought a federal bailout by the Bush administration to tide the companies…

…of the bailout that pulled them back from the brink. Speaking of the bankers lack of acknowledgement of the bailout, Swan goes to NPR’s interview a year ago with Wall…

by Mike Kimel An excellent post by Simon Johnson. The managing director of the IMF is the impresario of any bailout. The big decisions must be negotiated with all significant…

…minute 17 to listen to the jist of some Wallstreet laments from several regular traders about the bailout and how it is framed: Bailout blues??? Shame? Nah…just smarter than most….

…default is increasingly being priced into bond markets; however, Irish bond market conditions have not yet reached those of Greece in May 2010 (the bailout announcement), nor are they really…

…Bailout Nation, another book worth reading. The difference is, Ritholtz’ language is a bit more colorful, and Bailout Nation is the story of a bunch of crooks and idiots and…

…trough for TARP direct funding (the AIG bailout, etc going directly into Goldman and JPMorgan Chase’s pockets) and implicit guarantees resulting in very cheap cost-of-funds permitting Goldman et al to…

…and corollary impacts, are profoundly different. Robert Reich, labor secretary under Bill Clinton, looks at the bank bailouts and the banks’ failures to modify principal amounts on mortgage loans and…

…They didn’t. They had garbage on their balance sheet. And the bailout was to make sure that they didn’t suffer multi $10 billion write-downs on that AIG-supported loan. PAUL SOLMAN:…