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Tag: Bailout

Ear to the Ground: Banks, Gov’t Strike $25B Deal in Foreclosure Fraud Settlement

Reports: The Democrats Who Unleashed Wall Street and Got Away With It

Ear to the Ground: Bailout, Tune Out

Ear to the Ground: Report: Freddie Mac Stacked the Deck Against Homeowners

Reports: Obama’s Faux Populism Sounds Like Bill Clinton

Ear to the Ground: Geithner Eyes the Exit

Reports: S&P Downgrades and Banks: Threats to Global Stability

Ear to the Ground: Recovery Drags as Americans Dip Into Savings

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: Indiana University Poverty Researchers

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s New Chief of Staff Hails From Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Germany and France to the Rescue, Again

Ear to the Ground: American Social Mobility Ain’t What It Used to Be

Cartoons: From Barack

Arts and Culture: Occupy Jingle Bells

Ear to the Ground: SEC Slaps Former Fannie, Freddie Execs With Fraud Charges

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Moment

A/V Booth: Chris Hedges Talks Capitalism With Michael Moore

Reports: Time to Start Preoccupying Wall Street

Reports: Truthdiggers of the Week: Two Mortgage Meltdown Whistle-Blowers

A/V Booth: Occupy Economics: Experts Speak in Support of the 99 Percent

Ear to the Ground: My Occupy L.A. Arrest

Cartoons: Santa Euro Crisis

Cartoons: Disabled Euro

Cartoons: A Crisis Story

Ear to the Ground: Sarkozy: It All Comes Down to France and Germany

Ear to the Ground: Occupy L.A.: Decamped but Not Deterred

Ear to the Ground: Police Clear Occupy Camps in Los Angeles, Philadelphia

Reports: Occupy 2012

Ear to the Ground: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Big Profits During Bailout

Ear to the Ground: Paulson Tipped Hedge Funds About Market Meltdown

Ear to the Ground: Barney Frank to Call It Quits

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Laurie Penny

Ear to the Ground: AIG Chairman Looks Down His Nose at OWS

Ear to the Ground: Report Claims Rep. Bachus Capitalized on Financial Meltdown

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Robert Reich

Ear to the Ground: Alabama County Goes Really, Really Bankrupt

A/V Booth: The Great Depression, Now in Color

A/V Booth: Occupy America

Arts and Culture: De Niro to Morph Into Madoff

Ear to the Ground: So Long, Silvio?

Ear to the Ground: Papandreou Prepares His Exit

Reports: Finding Freedom in Handcuffs

A/V Booth: Robert Reich on OWS Strategy: Hit ’Em Where It Counts

Reports: Chris Hedges Arrested in Front of Goldman Sachs

A/V Booth: Exposing the Worst of the 1 Percent

Ear to the Ground: Greek PM: Never Mind the Referendum

Reports: Too Big to Jail

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: Oakland Gears Up for General Strike

Ear to the Ground: Greek PM Rocks the Bailout Boat

Ear to the Ground: Wall Street: You’ve Got Hate Mail

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Relief in Europe, Inequality in America

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Oakland Defies Mayor, Pitches Camp

Ear to the Ground: Madoff’s Regrets

Ear to the Ground: Eurozone Gets a Boost, Finally

Ear to the Ground: Oakland, Atlanta Officials Take It Up a Notch Against Occupy Movement

A/V Booth: Money Wars: Goldman Sachs vs. OWS

Ear to the Ground: WikiLeaks Goes Into Emergency Triage Mode

Ear to the Ground: Obama Rolls Out New Plan to Help Homeowners

Reports: No Hope for the Jobless if a Republican Wins

Reports: The Choice Between Democracy and Autocracy

Ear to the Ground: Greek Parliament Passes Austerity Package

Reports: Let Them Eat Keller

Reports: The Occupy Windfall

Reports: Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

Arts and Culture: Nude in Black and White

Ear to the Ground: OWS, The American Dream and You

Ear to the Ground: OWS Declares Victory as Liberty Plaza Cleanup Is Postponed

A/V Booth: Taibbi’s List: Five Demands for OWS

Ear to the Ground: Anonymous Wants You to Move Your Money

Reports: What Do They Want? Justice

Reports: The Men We Trusted to Lead Us

Reports: When Socialism Saves Capitalism

Reports: America the Passive

Cartoons: Italy Inclined

Cartoons: European Union Life Raft

Cartoons: Greek Euro

Ear to the Ground: Elizabeth Warren Is Running for the Senate

A/V Booth: Obama Labor Day Speech (Video and Transcript)

Ear to the Ground: Obama Previews Jobs Agenda

Reports: Always Some Bushie There to Remind Us

Ear to the Ground: Buffett Pumps Up Bank of America

Ear to the Ground: A Look at the ‘Bush-Obama’ Presidency

Ear to the Ground: Naomi Klein on Riots and Resistance

Reports: Another Bailout Joins the Goofball Economy

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

Cartoons: Greece Bailout

Reports: Sorry Elizabeth, Wall Street Said No

Cartoons: Kebab Obama

Reports: The GOP’s Sick Priorities

Cartoons: IMF

Cartoons: Papandreou Among the Ruins

Cartoons: Greek Lessons

Reports: Greece and EU Attempt to Avoid Disastrous Default

Ear to the Ground: In Greece, ‘Fiscal Suicide’ Was Not an Option

Cartoons: Ten and Out?

Cartoons: Greek Austerity Protests

Cartoons: Greece

A/V Booth: The Difference Between Rhetoric and Reality

Cartoons: Greece’s Economic Crisis

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pitches Woo to Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: Three Banks Spanked for Subpar Mortgage Practices

Reports: The Bernanke Scandal: Full-Frontal Cluelessness

Cartoons: Greek Economy

Reports: Playing With Default

Reports: Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves

Ear to the Ground: Plummeting Prices Deepen Crisis in U.S. Housing Market

Arts and Culture: Exclusive: Ry Cooder’s ‘No Banker Left Behind’

Reports: Access Journalism: The Movie

Ear to the Ground: Here Comes Tim Pawlenty

Cartoons: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Reports: The Real IMF Assault

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Eric Schneiderman

Reports: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: N.Y. Attorney General Wants Answers From Big Banks

Reports: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic

Reports: The Government: Credit Where Credit Is Due

Arts and Culture: Clooney Zeroes In on ‘The $700 Billion Man’

Reports: The False Debate on the Debt

Reports: The Peasants Need Pitchforks

Reports: This Is What Resistance Looks Like

Reports: State Crises Mean New Language of Deceit

Reports: Two Public Pay Standards, One Statement of Values

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now’: Matt Taibbi’s Still on Wall Street’s Case

Ear to the Ground: Cash Bonuses Down, Compensation Up on Wall Street

Reports: Uprisings: From the Middle East to the Midwest

Reports: The Submerged State

Ear to the Ground: Goldman Sachs Under Pressure to Return $2.9 Billion Windfall to Taxpayers

A/V Booth: Pols Debate Chrysler Super Bowl Ad

Ear to the Ground: Bank of America Reports $1.2 Billion Quarterly Loss

Reports: The GOP Is Holding the Economy Hostage, and It’s Time to Call Its Bluff

Reports: ‘The Left Has Nowhere to Go’

Reports: Faces of Economic Death

Reports: Speaking Ill of ‘the Best and the Brightest’

Reports: The B-Plus President

Ear to the Ground: EU Moves to Defend the Euro

Ear to the Ground: New Data Show Extent of Fed’s Free Money Programs

Ear to the Ground: No TARP in Iceland

Reports: Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street

Cartoons: Cowen Catching the “Celtic Tiger”

Ear to the Ground: $50 Billion for Irish Bailout

Reports: To Deter Crime, Get Tough on Wall Street

Ear to the Ground: GM’s Big Day

Reports: The Earmark Sideshow

Reports: La Vie en Denial

Reports: Rank-and-File Frustration

Reports: More Than a Failure to Communicate

Reports: Washington Laughs at ‘Revolution’

Reports: The Tea Party and the Midterms

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Reports: Why the Rest of Europe Isn’t Happy With France and Germany

Reports: Payback at the Polls

Reports: Message for the Day After

Reports: It’s the Stupidity, Stupid

Reports: Joe Sestak’s Witching Hour

Reports: Tea Party Robber Barons

Ear to the Ground: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Run Up Huge Tab for Taxpayers

Reports: When Banks Are the Robbers

Reports: Tea Party Socialism

Ear to the Ground: AIG’s IOU Coming Due With Strings Attached

Reports: Lies of the Tea Party

Arts and Culture: ‘The Great American Stickup’: How Wall Street Occupied Washington

Reports: Do Not Pity the Democrats

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Afraid of the D-Word

Reports: The Neoliberal Bait and Switch

Reports: Rotten Eggs and Our Broken Democracy

Ear to the Ground: Ungrateful ‘Government Motors’ Ready to Go Public Again

Reports: Big Banks Get Billions, Waters Gets Busted

Ear to the Ground: Maxine Waters Caught in Triple Ethical Tangle

Ear to the Ground: $26 Billion for States and Schools

Reports: House of Entitlement

Ear to the Ground: Another Prominent Democrat Faces Ethics Charges

Reports: How Big Government Saved the Malibu

Ear to the Ground: Rebuke but No Consequences for Post-Bailout Bonuses

Reports: The Grinches Who Stole Summer

Ear to the Ground: Goldman Sachs’ Profit Takes a Major Plunge in Q2

Ear to the Ground: AIG Settles for $725 Million

Reports: There’s Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons

Reports: Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment

Ear to the Ground: Tea Partying for Fun and Profit

Ear to the Ground: Why Russ Feingold Won’t Vote for ‘Fig Leaf’ Financial Reform

Ear to the Ground: Regulators Made Sure Goldman Sachs Got All of Its Bailout Money

Reports: Unhinged on the Right

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants $50 Billion For Teachers, Cops and Firefighters

Reports: The Michael Jordan of Bailouts

Reports: Live Chat: Robert Scheer on Rand Paul and Social Justice

Reports: The Greeks Get It

Ear to the Ground: Former AIG Exec May Be Off the Hook

Ear to the Ground: Here They Come to Save Das Day

Ear to the Ground: Freedom From Porn Edition

Reports: Happy Days Aren’t Here Again

A/V Booth: Senate Gives the Go-Ahead for Fed Lending Probe

Ear to the Ground: Euro-Bailout Helps U.S. Stocks Rise High

Reports: Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse

Ear to the Ground: Tea Partyers Give Sen. Bennett the Boot

Reports: Will We Keep Hating the Government?

Reports: The Crime of Our Time

Truthdig Podcast: The Crime of Our Time

Reports: A Fragile Partnership

Ear to the Ground: What’s Euro Problem?

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