…Idea Could Save Them from Themselves, The New York Times, Saule Omarova The banking industry and its political allies waged a highly public campaign to block my candidacy and called…

by Linda Beale Calculating the Cost of Bailouts A recent New York Times includes a piece on the Treasury’s study of the various bailouts or “rescues” of distressed financial and…

…has done a good job of preventing even worse problems from developing by rebuilding financial sector balance sheets through the bank bailout and other means. But household balance sheets have…

LA Times (via John Chait). The projected cost of the $700-billion financial bailout fund — initially feared to be a huge hit to taxpayers — continues to drop, with the…

…another person’s comments again for the real ramifications of TARP and the bailout. Why do Megan McArdle and the Administration hate the troops?) Paying large bonuses while the banks themselves…

…pulpit? Unless there’s some way to establish that they brought pressure to bear, I think this fact is an opinion. Citigroup did not receive a $306 billion bailout as the…

…is Gregg Sommerville, whose job depends to some significant extent on people not believing the following riff: More music below the fold. The Bailout Rap and the Subprime Mortgage Blues…

…being made on the bailout funds. As Bruce Webb noted here at the time: These early returns are by no means a full accounting of the huge financial rescue undertaken…

…commonly described as planning to ask for $750 Billion in additional “bailout funds.” They are claiming that this should be shown on the budget as $250 Billion, since they expect…

…increases buyers’ ability to realize tax benefits from bank acquisitions,” Harte wrote in a note issued Friday. The change “could spur significant bank industry consolidation,” he said. “We suspect that…