Year: 2009

Senate OKs $680 Billion-Dollar Spending Bill

Senate OKs defense bill, 68-29 T H E  H I L L By Roxana Tiron  10/22/09 04:20 PM ET The Senate on Thursday sent the massive 2010 Pentagon policy bill to the president’s desk for signing. The Senate approved the bill authorizing $680 billion in defense spending by a vote of 68-29. For the first […]

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How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash

McClatchy Washington Bureau Sun, Nov. 01, 2009 Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers November 01, 2009 01:17:44 AM WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in […]

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