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CEO pay: What those involved in the financial meltdown made

September 29th, 2008 . by admin

Needless to say, a lot.

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NO AMNESTY FOR WALL STREET!

September 29th, 2008 . by admin

Virtually our entire financial system is based on an illusion. We spend more than we earn, we consume more than we produce, we borrow more than we save, and we cling to the fantasy that this can go on forever. The glue that holds this crumbling scheme together is a fiat currency created out of thin air known as the Federal Reserve Note.

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Fed keeps banks afloat as money market crisis deepens

September 26th, 2008 . by admin

U.S. banks and money managers borrowed a record amount from the Federal Reserve in the latest week, nearly $188 billion a day on average, showing the central bank went to extremes to keep the banking system afloat amid the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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HOUSE PASSES $25B FOR CAR MAKERS

September 25th, 2008 . by admin

The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $25bn package of low-cost loans to help hard-pressed carmakers and their suppliers finance plant modernisation at a time of restricted access to public capital ­markets

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Let’s Play Wall St ‘Bail Out’ — NOT!

September 24th, 2008 . by admin

Rep Kapture rocks the house again!: ‘Lets play Wall Street Bailout!!!’
September 22, 2008 C-SPAN

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Ron paul: Bailouts will lead to rough economic ride

September 23rd, 2008 . by admin

“…governmental measures, combined with the Federal Reserve’s loose monetary policy, led to an unsustainable housing boom. The key measure by which the Fed caused this boom was through the manipulation of interest rates, and the open market operations that accompany this lowering.”

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UN chief calls for ‘global leadership’

September 23rd, 2008 . by admin

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for “global leadership” as he pressed world leaders not to pursue narrow national interests in the face of hard economic times. “I see a danger of nations looking more inward, rather than toward a shared future,” he said at the opening of the UN General Assembly’s annual debate.

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Pentagon budget, disaster aid bill written in secret

September 23rd, 2008 . by admin

Congress is scrambling to pass the Pentagon budget, aid for flood and hurricane victims and $25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers. The legislation is coming together in a remarkably secretive process in which decisions are concentrated in the hands of just a few lawmakers such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid & David Obey

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Europeans on left and right ridicule U.S. money meltdown

September 22nd, 2008 . by admin

They list greed and Greenspan among the culprits, and there are comparisons to . . . Albania. But amid the gloating, there is fear for financial systems in Britain, Spain, Italy and elsewhere.

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Fury at $2.5bn bonus for Lehman’s New York staff

September 22nd, 2008 . by admin

Up to 10,000 staff at the New York office of the bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers will share a bonus pool set aside for them that is worth $2.5bn, Barclays Bank, which is buying the business, confirmed last night.

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