Word: macs
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...avoid a further decline in real estate prices through the usage of federal funds. The current proposal is explicit about its monumental cost: $700 billion, a sum larger than the 2009 budget of Medicare and Medicaid, which also dwarfs the de facto nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac just weeks...
Even after committing $285 billion over the past couple of weeks to bail out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and insurer AIG, the Federal Government is now looking to fork over more - much more...
...financiers for the market's near-collapse, but instead blames government for having overregulated the markets in the first place. The business leaders bailed out by government this week "are victims," he said, "and the government set it up." Washington underreacted to previous crisis, let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spin wildly out of control as quasigovernment agencies while taxpayers piled up unsecured debt in their names. The crisis, he added, was "really fed throughout by government policies...
...context of Girl Talk’s mashups, no songs or artists are out of bounds. On “In Step,” Nirvana’s gothic “Lithium” becomes the backdrop to an upbeat jump rope chant, and though Fleetwood Mac wouldn’t top many dance floor set lists, there they are, at the top of “Let Me See You,” blended seamlessly into Trina’s “I Got a Thang For You.” As on previous Girl Talk...
...past couple weeks, a bad investment climate has turned into the worst financial crises in decades, forcing the bankruptcy of a major investment bank, the merger of one more, and a government bailout of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the American Insurance Group—pillars of American financial markets that have been teetering on the brink of collapse...