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Breaking The Bank : Behind The Financial Meltdown ~ Frontline [Video]

F R O N T L I N E In Breaking the Bank, FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk (Inside the Meltdown, Bush’s War) draws on a rare combination of high-profile interviews with key players Ken Lewis and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to reveal the story of two banks at the heart of the financial […]

Politics by JT2016

Senate Turns Aside New Attempt to Scrutinize Fed

REUTERS Mon Jul 6, 2009 5:59pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve, facing growing pressure as it tries to heal the ailing economy, dodged a bullet on Monday when the U.S. Senate cast aside a new effort to increase scrutiny of the central bank. On procedural grounds, the Senate blocked a bid to […]

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It’s Goldman Sachs’ Party And They’ll Profit If They Want To

THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE ROLLING STONE MATT TAIBBI From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment […]

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U.S. Lawmakers Smell Something Fishy in Bank of America / Merrill Deal

U.S. lawmakers seek BofA-Merrill probe R E U T E R S Fri Apr 24, 2009 By Kim Dixon and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Momentum is building among U.S. lawmakers to investigate Bank of America’s (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) purchase of Merrill Lynch, amid allegations that federal officials gave the bank’s chief […]

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Bank of America: When $45 Billion is Really $199.2 billion

Michael Whitney FIREDOGLAKE/ OXDOWN GAZETE Friday April 24, 2009 If you’ve been following the news, you know by now that Bank of America is in debt to the American taxpayer in the amount of $45 billion – the amount of TARP funds (aka “bailout money”) that they received since last year. But it turns out […]