Word: blame
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...Fannie Mae, however, there is no question where the money will come from. Freddie and Fannie were taken over by the government and put into conservatorship last fall. AIG is currently 80% owned by the government. The losses at those companies are now taxpayer losses. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...political press for being "more reactive and passive and less of an enterprising investigator of the candidates than it once was," singling out The Washington Post for running 10 fewer in-depth candidate profiles during the 2008 presidential election than it did in 1992. The report spreads the blame around, though, observing that cutbacks and increasingly PR-savvy campaigns have also hurt the profession: "Most of what we know about the new president came from his campaign rather than from media enterprise...
...significant portion is held by other financial institutions like hedge funds. Suppose all swaps are held by banks. Since swaps are a zero-sum game, the banking industry as a whole cannot lose money on swaps. Then there is no need for a bailout. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...weather has always been an easy thing to blame for seemingly unprovoked aches and pains. Now, researchers at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have made it even easier, publishing a study that links high temperatures and headaches...
...stem rising public outrage with the multibillion-dollar cleanup operation. That anger came after federal officials named dozens of U.S. and European financial institutions that, together with municipalities in Virginia, California and elsewhere, have shared in more than $170 billion in AIG bailout money. (See 25 people to blame for the financial collapse...