Posts Tagged ‘Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)’

6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street’s “Secret Government”

Written on December 2nd, 2011 by alpineskino shouts
Top officials willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-’09 bailouts from Congress and the public. We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret ...

GOP Fights to Shut Down TARP Slush Fund, Return Money to Taxpayers

Written on December 14th, 2009 by kalelno shouts
With the federal government coming off a $1.42 trillion deficit (“roughly twice individual income tax revenue“) and Washington already another $292 billion in the red, the president and his allies ...

Bank Of America Has Screwed Taxpayers Again

Written on December 14th, 2009 by alpineskino shouts
A few media outlets cheered the announcement that Bank of America was repaying its $45 billion of bailout money ahead of time. Bank of America is now obviously healthy again, ...

Pelosi Endorses ‘Global’ Tax on Stocks, Bonds, and other Financial Transactions

Written on December 7th, 2009 by kalelno shouts
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer   House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrive for a press conference after House passage of the health care reform bill ...

BREAKING: Unemployment Still High By Gov’t Design

Written on November 6th, 2009 by kalelno shouts
Posted by Erick Erickson: Wow. Obama has been touring the nation making sure we know how many jobs he has saved or created. It is looking more and more like ...

Remember the TARP Money? Yeah, It’s Gone.

Written on October 22nd, 2009 by kalelno shouts
Posted by Leon H. Wolf Via USA Today, TARP IG Neil Barofsky has some harsh words for the way the TARP funds have been handled: A Treasury Department watchdog is ...

Letter to Congress

Written on October 19th, 2009 by alpineskino shouts
To the Congress: The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 – you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke. Social Security was established in 1935 ...