Alea notes TAF results: Total propositions submitted: $138.092 billion Total propositions accepted: $138.092 billion Bid/cover ratio: 0.92 Number of bidders: 71 The auction in question was supposed to be a…

UPDATE: Brad DeLong notes that there is no requirement, under the bailout bill, for halfway measures and delays: Every other country that is in this business is nationalizing the banks…

Floyd Norris throws up [at] the details. He is not alone. Anyone keeping money in the U.S. stock market from this point forward better have no choice….

…(2) working on the idiocy plan that he presented. Leonhardt’s very next sentence undermines his previous paragraph. The first thing to understand is that a bailout plan doesn’t have to…

…industry that is a prime candidate for a bailout that puts a tight lease on the self-indulgent management. What’s the phrase, “auto czar“? And that’s even ignoring any national security…

…and police officers. And it’s pretty hard not to juxtapose those statements with Romney’s hostility toward the auto-industry bailout, both then and now. I’ll post a short post on this…

…drugs on the market [1]. Kefauver’s indictment against a marketing-driven industry created a representation of the pharmaceutical industry far different than the one offered by the industry itself. As Froud…

…industry, but help to establish social license, finance projects, or shape policy on the industry’s behalf. It’s feasible that PR and ad agencies, banks, insurers, and other consulting firms could…

…PLASTICS desk Speaking on behalf of the plastics industry, Matt Seaholm, president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), cautioned that the Trump administration’s across-the-board tariffs “will disrupt supply chains, increase…

Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Congress gave final approval to legislation providing the auto industry with $25 billion in loans, lifting an offshore oil-drilling ban and funding the government…