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LondonBanker.blogspot.com

Arguably the actions of the Federal Reserve over the past year represent the largest state confiscation of wealth in the history of man, dispossessing currency investors, equity investors, bond investors and taxpayers of literally trillions of dollar

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Washington Post

The Bush administration proposed a historic $500 billion bailout of financial firms that would let the government rather than the cold judgment of the marketplace decide the winners and losers from the crisis that has shaken the US economy for the pa

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CNN

Bush, Paulson outline powerful steps targeting troubled mortgage-related assets weighing down the finance industry. Plan could cost hundreds of billions.

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FinancialTimes.com

"As soon as they downgraded it I decided to come and was here at 7am," said Lewanne Elwes, an artist manager. "I can't go on waking up in the middle of the night all worried after watching the news . . . I'm tired of this.

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by Michael S. Rozeff via LewRockwell.com

The Fed is doubling down on a bad hand. It is buying more stock as it falls, instead of selling out. The Fed is lending more and more of its liquid government securities to client banks. In return, it is accepting their questionable and risky collate

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Bloomberg.com

The Federal Reserve added $70 billion in reserves to the banking system, the most since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, to reverse a surge in borrowing costs sparked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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SeekingAlpha

When FDIC head says her agency might have to bolster the FDIC's insurance fund with Treasury borrowings to pay for the new spate of bank failures, a lot of us assumed there's an actual FDIC fund in need of bolstering. We were wrong.

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Bloomberg.com

The Bush administration is considering whether to fold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's $5.2 trillion in debt into the federal budget, the White House budget office and the U.S. Treasury Department said.

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CNBC.com

The end result of the global economic slowdown may be the U.S. announcing national bankruptcy as the government cannot afford the bailouts that it promised and the market will not bail out the government, Martin Hennecke, senior manager...

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optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com

The precarious position of commercial banking also puts the FDIC at risk. As I wrote two weeks ago, with $45 billion in its insurance fund, and the prospect that WaMu—with $140 billion of insured deposits—could fail, it seems inevitable that FDIC wil

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DoctorHousingBubble.com

It basically will allocate a large portion of our debt to totally unproductive parts of the economy. Money that can be used to further research and development, infrastructure, and our economy will now be used to fix horrific bubble mortgages....

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WashingtonPost.com

The government has formulated a plan to put troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under federal control, dismiss their top executives and prop them up financially, federal officials told the two companies yesterday...

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Daily Telegraph

China has resorted to stealth intervention in the currency markets to amass US dollars, using indirect means to hold down the yuan and ease the pain for its struggling exporters as the global slowdown engulfs the economy.