Obama Administration Argues Against Releasing Bush-Era Detainee Information
The Obama administration told a judge late Monday that it will continue to withhold information regarding past detainee policies for national security reasons, a decision assailed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Fed makes $14bn profit on crisis loans
The Federal Reserve has made a $14bn profit on loan programmes that have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity to the financial system since the start of the crisis two years ago, according to Fed officials.
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0296cf1a-9594-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html
Bailout bank execs compensated nicely:
The 20 financial firms that have received the most bailout money from the government have, in the three years through 2008, awarded their top five executives pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank.
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/08/31/daily58.html
U.S. consumer bankruptcies up 24 percent in August
Bankruptcy filings by U.S. consumers rose 24 percent in August compared with a year earlier and could reach 1.4 million this year, according to an American Bankruptcy Institute and National Bankruptcy Research Center report released on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5815X020090902
Crooks, Computers, and the Coming Crash
As stocks continued to rally into September, one has to ask one's self, "just who's buying this rally?" The answer? Computers and no one else.
https://www.kitco.com/ind/Summers/sep012009.html
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
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https://snipurl.com/rkqom
Fed makes $14bn profit on crisis loans
The Federal Reserve has made a $14bn profit on loan programmes that have provided hundreds of billions of dollars in liquidity to the financial system since the start of the crisis two years ago, according to Fed officials.
https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0296cf1a-9594-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html
Bailout bank execs compensated nicely:
The 20 financial firms that have received the most bailout money from the government have, in the three years through 2008, awarded their top five executives pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion, according to a study released Wednesday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank.
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2009/08/31/daily58.html
U.S. consumer bankruptcies up 24 percent in August
Bankruptcy filings by U.S. consumers rose 24 percent in August compared with a year earlier and could reach 1.4 million this year, according to an American Bankruptcy Institute and National Bankruptcy Research Center report released on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5815X020090902
Crooks, Computers, and the Coming Crash
As stocks continued to rally into September, one has to ask one's self, "just who's buying this rally?" The answer? Computers and no one else.
https://www.kitco.com/ind/Summers/sep012009.html
From Information Clearing House
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Federal+Reserve
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=financial+system
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bailout
https://omega.twoday.net/search?q=bankruptcies
rudkla - 3. Sep, 22:43
