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Obama considers new fee on banks to help get our $700B back

The budget that President Obama submits next month is likely to include new fees on financial firms as the White House seeks to recover the full costs of its $700 billion bailout of the banking industry, officials said.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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AIG executives renege on promises to return bonuses

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo threatened to publicize the recipients' names, prompting executives at AIG Financial Products to hastily agree to return about $45 million in bonuses by the end of the year.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Eliot Spitzer proposes full "open source" review of AIG emails

The three of us, as experienced investigators and prosecutors of financial fraud, cannot answer these questions now. But we know where the answers are. They are in the trove of e-mail messages still backed up on A.I.G. servers, as well as in the key i [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Pikk a side - the AIG executives or the government

Five senior executives at American International Group told the insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was cut significantly by the U.S. pay czar, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Morgan Stanley’s $9,000,000,000.00 Check. That’s $9 Billion! 

(click to see the check) Morgan Stanley received a $9 billion investment from Mitsubishi UFJ in the fall of 2008 that kept the firm from collapsing. The payment was supposed to be wired electronically, but because it needed to be made on an emergency  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Will GM pay back America in full?

General Motors is expected to announce on Monday that it will begin repaying its debt to the United States next month, years earlier than required. The nation's largest automaker plans to pay $1 billion per quarter until the $6.7 billion loan is re [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Senate votes to renew tax credit for first-time home buyers

The Senate voted Wednesday to renew the government's $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers through the first six months of next year as part of a broader bill designed to extend unemployment benefits. For the first time, the tax credit progr [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Treasury, GMAC in talks for 3rd round of US aid- You decide

GMAC Financial Services, the former lending arm of General Motors Co., is in talks with the Treasury Department for a third injection of taxpayer aid, a further sign of the U.S. government's entrenchment in the U.S. auto industry. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Bill in works to let U.S. dissolve failing firms

House Democrats and the Obama administration are preparing to introduce major legislation aimed at eliminating the devil's choice the government faced last fall, when officials felt forced to decide between spending billions of dollars to rescue some  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Obama administration to cut executive pay at 7 bailed-out firms

But executives can still receive additional salary in stock, the source said. The portion of salary given in stock would vest immediately, although executives will have to wait two years before redeeming the shares. Even then, they will be able to cas [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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President Obama to Nominate Federal Ben Bernanke For New Term

OAK BLUFFS, Mass., August 24 -- President Obama will reappoint Ben S. Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve, administration officials said Monday night, electing to maintain continuity in the nation's most powerful economic policymaker in a time [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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AP Source: GM has emerged from bankruptcy, how will it do?

DETROIT (AP) — A person briefed on the matter says General Motors Corp. has emerged from bankruptcy protection after signing papers to transfer the bulk of its assets to a new, leaner company majority-owned by the U.S. government. The person, who [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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