Nov 3rd, 2009 - The Huffington Post
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With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.
In the wake of the near collapse of the US financial sector one year ago, Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke took extraordinary measures to avert collapse. Turning caution to the wind, they arranged shotgun mergers, decided who would live and who would die, and brought the word trillions into our every day vocabulary...
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Fed to hold rates at record-low, but cracks emerge
Nov 2nd, 2009 - USA Today
WASHINGTON Even with the Federal Reserve, widely expected to leave interest rates at a record low this week to nurture the fragile recovery, fissures are growing among U.S...
Sacked drug tsar claims 'no independent scientist could work for Home Secretary'
Nov 2nd, 2009 - Telegraph
The furore over his departure has led to predictions of mass resignations from the country's drugs advisory panel which could leave the service in disarray. Dr Les King...
us bank regulators: Key firms can't be a secret
Oct 29th, 2009 - Reuters
* Bank regulators say systemic firm list will be public * Geithner says won't publish list, cites moral hazard * Geithner concedes market will figure out systemic firms WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - U.S...
Rep. Grayson apologizes for calling lobbyist a ‘whore'
Oct 28th, 2009 - ajc
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) has apologized for calling a top adviser to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke a “whore.” “I offer my sincere apology to Linda Robertson...
House Bill Taps Largest Firms to Pay for US Financial Rescues
Oct 28th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Banks, hedge funds and otherfinancial firms that hold more than $10 billion in assets wouldpay to rescue companies whose collapse would shake the financialsystem under draft legislation crafted by a U.S...



