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Comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke Welcome You to the USSRA
(United Socialist State Republic of America)
By Nouriel Roubini
Socialism is indeed alive and well in America; but this is socialism for the rich, the well connected and Wall Street. A socialism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized with the US tax-payer being charged the bill of $300 billion. Continue
“Modern Debt Peonage”?
Economic Democracy Is Turning Into a Financial Oligarchy
Mike Whitney: An Interview With Michael Hudson
The best that this weekend’s bailout can do is to postpone the losses on bad mortgage debts. But this is a far cry from actually restoring the ability of debtors to pay. Continue
Why The Fannie-Freddie Bailout Will Fail
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
With yesterday's announcement of the most massive federal bailout of all time, it's now official: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two largest mortgage lenders on Earth, are bankrupt. Continue
US Government stages world's biggest bail out: The country's two biggest mortgage companies were nationalised amid fears that their bankruptcy would have triggered an economic collapse.
Why U.S. moved on mortgage giants: The proposal to place both mortgage giants, which own or back $5.3 trillion in mortgages, into a government-run conservatorship also grew out of deep concern among foreign investors that the companies' debt might not be repaid.
China frets at US risk after Fannie/Freddie bailout: The U.S. Treasury's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is good news in the short term for China, the biggest holder of the giant mortgage lenders' debt, but Beijing's huge U.S. exposure still poses a serious risk, a prominent government researcher said on Monday.
Markets soar after US bail-out: US stocks futures and Asian and European share markets have soared after the US government took control of mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Analysts, however, cautioned that the move was more a sign of the perilous state of the global financial system than of an imminent recovery.
Wa Mu Giving it Up: . Regulators will be monitoring WaMu after the bank agreed to reduce risks and tighten its procedures, according to the statement, and the stock dropped as much as 14 percent.
US auto industry pushes for $50b loan: Auto industry allies hope to secure up to $US50 billion ($A61.69 billion) in US government loans this month that would pay to modernise plants and help struggling US carmakers build more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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