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Management at AIG has calculated exactly how much money the Treasury and Fed will have access to after all of the TARP, financial stimulus, and mortgage bailout projects have been funded. The insurance company then plans to ask for whatever is left to fund its deficits so that it can...
At the head of the former line is beleaguered giant Citigroup, which is currently negotiating with the Treasury Department to swap common stock in the company for some of the $45 billion in preferred stock that the government has purchased so far to shore up the bank's finances. The...
In a financial panic, markets for certain assets simply stop functioning, and relying on market prices to determine the health of banks would simply mean succumbing to the panic. Then again, relying on bank executives to accurately price their own assets is no good either. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner hopes...
Of course, community banks, despite weathering the credit storm relatively well so far, may soon face their own troubles. Unlike larger banks, most community banks were not big in the residential-mortgage business. Instead, they made a lot of loans to local developers. As the economy sours, more and more...
President Barack Obama often induces comparison to Abraham Lincoln. However, his recent announcement of a budget schedule that slices the deficit by one-half aligns him with a less celebrated commander-in-chief: Herbert Hoover. Hoover, the man whose infamous attempt to balance the budget in the face of skyrocketing...