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...other significant parts of the new plan are funded from other sources, and won't add to the taxpayer tab. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) will guarantee certain bank accounts - those mostly used by businesses for payroll and other expenses - above the current $250,000 limit. The FDIC will also guarantee lending between banks by creating a new kind of debt. The FDIC is calling this program a "Temporary Liquidity Guarantee...
...just given another $50 billion to Gazprom, Rosneft, Lukoil and other energy conglomerates to pay their accrued foreign debts by the end of this year. Russian companies and banks are to pay yet another $115.7 billion by the end of 2009. Furthermore, Moscow will have to pick up the tab for debts accrued by regional governments...
...infuriated that American taxpayers are bailing out corporate gamblers. They will never change their irresponsible behavior as long as we keep picking up the tab. Our amazing country has been reduced to a welfare state for the wealthy. Jason Graham, Oakland, California...
...study conducted by Hewitt Associates, a global human-resources-services company, revealed that 55% of companies plan to boost the number of expats they employ this year, a 2% increase over 2007. About 21% of China's expats are Westerners, whose private insurers and employers often pick up the tab...
...dinner we drank a bottle of Dom Pérignon, and Flo picked up the $6,000 tab. He called it "a Disney World dinner," since Flo seems to think going to Disney World costs $6,000. Then we went outside and made lots of calls to one another about which gas station we were going to stop at on the way to Diamonds Cabaret, a gentlemen's club, where we would tip the entertainers 5,000 $1 bills that we had brought in a leather satchel. I got in the Bentley while Flo lay down in the backseat and began...