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Watchdog: Regulators Bowed to Banks on Bailout

Federal regulators bowed to pressure from big banks seeking a quick exit from the financial bailout program and did not uniformly apply the government s own conditions set for repaying the taxpayer funds, a new watchdog report says.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44726626/ns/business-us_business/


From Information Clearing House

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Banks Successfully Lobbied for Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules so They Could Pay Bonuses

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: 'As a new report from the Special Inspector General for TARP shows, even these restrictions were too much for some of the nation's biggest banks - including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PNC - who lobbied for easier payback requirements so that they could be freed from restrictions on paying bonuses.'

http://www.truth-out.org/banks-successfully-lobbied-weaker-bailout-repayment-rules-so-they-could-pay-bonuses/1317402018



Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors

Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against widespread global uncertainty? The answer, according to Bill Murphy s newsletter LeMetropoleCafe.com, is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling.... The stock market has been plagued by these speculative attacks ever since the four-year industry-wide bear raid called the Great Depression, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was reduced to 10 percent of its former value.'

http://www.truth-out.org/sheared-shorts-how-short-sellers-fleece-investors/1317326458

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