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From the New York Times: Bailout Plan Stalls After Day of Talks; Paulson Heads Back to Capitol Hill – NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — The status of a rescue plan for the nation’s financial system was in doubt on Thursday, at least for the moment, as lawmakers emerged from a meeting with President Bush to say that [...] Text of Lawmakers’ Agreement on Principles Congressional Republicans and Democrats came to an agreement on principles for the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program that they will take into final negotiations with the White House. It includes sections on taxpayer protections, oversight and transparency, homeownership preservation and funding authority. Agreement on Principles Taxpayer Protection Requires [...] Congress has a plan Lawmakers agree on bailout principles to protect taxpayers and ensure oversight. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Lawmakers have reached agreement on a bipartisan counterproposal to the Bush administration’s $700 billion financial bailout plan. Both parties and both houses agreed Thursday to a set of principles on revisions to the rescue plan, which [...] Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, has the following to say at Economist.com: Crisis roundtable: Which world are we in? | Free exchange | Economist.com It seems that banks and bank-like financial firms have two fundamental problems: 1) An investment problem. They have investments that cannot be traded [...] I need a transcript!!! I did agree with this statement: “I understand the frustration of responsible Americans who pay their mortgage on time, file their tax returns every April 15th and are reluctant to pay the excess costs on Wall Street,” he said. But, he added, “given the situation we’re facing, not passing a [...] In yet another example that Sarah Palin is not the anti-earmark, anti-pork barrel spending reformist she claims to be, the Governor of Alaska allows a completely useless road to be built, just because the contract was already signed, an excuse that really doesn’t hold water. Contracts almost always have some sort of cancellation clause built [...] In a decision that ought to make the A-train happy … or at least happier: SEC Quickly Revises Short-Selling Rules – WSJ.com Shift on Financials, Hedge Funds Sends Traders Scrambling WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission said shortly after midnight Monday that it would revise rules to curb short selling that it had issued [...] |
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