baselinescenario.com - 11/9/2008
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With the footsteps of a new Treasury Secretary audible around the corner, Henry Paulson’s days running the country are essentially at an end. The best he can do now is delay whatever changes the Obama administration will make.
Looking back over the last two months, Paulson’s ...
msnbc.msn.com - 11/13/2008
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msnbc.msn.com —
> For all the fury over Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson's $700 billion emergency economic relief fund, it...
seems downright puny when compared to the running total of the government's response to the credit crisis. According to CreditSights, a research ...
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Washington is on the hook for $5 trillion - Economy in ...
blogs.wsj.com - 11/9/2008
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blogs.wsj.com —
The following is the full text of a
letter sent to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson by House...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , urging aid for the auto industry. Dear Secretary Paulson: We are writing to request that you ...
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Pelosi, Reid Letter to Paulson on Auto Aid
online.wsj.com - 11/10/2008
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online.wsj.com —
WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reached
the end of his rope on Wednesday afternoon, Sept....
17. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. had collapsed. American International Group Inc. had been effectively nationalized with $85 billion of Fed ...
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Paulson, Bernanke Strained for Consensus in Bailout
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The Paulson Legacy, by James Kwak: With the footsteps of a new Treasury
Secretary audible around the corner, Henry Paulson’s days running the country
are essentially at an end. The best he can do now is delay whatever changes the
Obama administration will make. ...
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