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	<title>Market Bailout News &#187; Scott</title>
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		<title>AIG: The Elephant in the Room</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0351-aig-the-elephant-in-the-room/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recent Bailouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank of america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank stress tests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major U.S. banks were allowed to repay the Treasury for the first time last week, escaping the clutches of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). While it will be some time before taxpayers see a return on their entire $700 billion investment, the 10 financial firms that were approved to exit TARP should be returning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Calls for Financial System Overhaul</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0326-obama-calls-for-financial-system-overhaul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial overhaul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[office of thrift supervision]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[timothy geithner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bursting through the walls of Independence Hall with an optical laser blast, Super Obama now seeks to decimate the financial system that fueled the U.S.’s rise from tea hating quasi European nation to free wheeling capitalistic crusher. Banks and insurers tremble, Congress struggles to catch its breath, and even Obama supporters begin to wonder if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive pay regulators! Mount up!</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0310-executive-pay-regulators-mount-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0310-executive-pay-regulators-mount-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenneth feinberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay czar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketbailout.com/?p=310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Executive pay regulators…
Regulate any excessive compensation in this economy—
We’re damn good too.
But you can’t be some geek off Wall Street,
You’ve got to have public appeal if you know what I mean,
Earn America’s keep.
These are the words President Obama now passes to Washington attorney Kenneth Feinberg, the newly appointed “Pay Czar”. Feinberg is tasked with overseeing the approval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Crackdown Imminent: How Will Card Issuers Respond?</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0284-credit-card-crackdown-imminent-how-will-card-issuers-respond/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0284-credit-card-crackdown-imminent-how-will-card-issuers-respond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Cards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Chenault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketbailout.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a move much akin to Luke Skywalker’s attack run on the Death Star, President Obama signed the so-called “Credit Cardholder Bill of Rights” that will crackdown on the malpractice of card issuers. The bill passed in both the House and the Senate with overwhelming majorities in support, and seeks to institute several reforms that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$2 Trillion in Healthcare Savings: Practical or Implausible?</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0263-2-trillion-in-healthcare-savings-practical-or-implausible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0263-2-trillion-in-healthcare-savings-practical-or-implausible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[medical providers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, in his latest push to shore up healthcare, has stated that he expects a plan from Congress by July 31 that will overhaul the current healthcare system.  Obama, making good on one of his campaign promises, has proposed to reduce the ballooning costs of healthcare, guarantee the right to choose health plans and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Stress Test Results: You’ve Earned a Gold Star!</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0247-bank-stress-test-results-you%e2%80%99ve-earned-a-gold-star/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0247-bank-stress-test-results-you%e2%80%99ve-earned-a-gold-star/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank of america]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank stress tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben bernanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goldman sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketbailout.com/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s well known that the bank stress tests were as much a measure to build confidence as to shore up ailing banking practices, so it wasn’t a surprise when 9 of the 19 banks that underwent the stress test passed with flying colors.  The other 10 banks were asked to raise additional capital in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Giant Citigroup Poises to be Dismantled</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0238-financial-giant-citigroup-poises-to-be-dismantled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/personal-finance/0238-financial-giant-citigroup-poises-to-be-dismantled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citigroup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sandy weill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smith barney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vikram pandit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketbailout.com/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Citigroup, the proclaimed financial supermarket, announced the sale of its Smith Barney brokerage division to Morgan Stanley last week in a move that is expected to mark the beginning of a break-up for the banking giant.  With a massive government bailout just a few months prior, many are asking: how did this happen to Citigroup [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Requests to Tap Remaining $350 Billion of TARP Funds</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0227-obama-requests-to-tap-remaining-350-billion-of-tarp-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0227-obama-requests-to-tap-remaining-350-billion-of-tarp-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recent Bailouts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barney Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawrence summers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.marketbailout.com/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, President-elect Barack Obama called for the second half of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), passed by Congress in October.  Obama asked President Bush to submit a request to Congress making the remaining $350 billion available soon after his inauguration.  The first $350 billion of the fund was exhausted earlier this month, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Calls for $300 Billion in Tax Breaks</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0210-obama-calls-for-300-billion-in-tax-breaks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0210-obama-calls-for-300-billion-in-tax-breaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[$300 billion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american recovery and reinvestment plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax cuts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Amidst one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama released information this week about his stimulus plan intended to put money into the pockets of average Americans and small businesses.  The plan, coined by Obama as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, could cost as much as $775 billion.  Economists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas Prices Stoop to $1.65 as Concerns for Industry’s Future are Evident</title>
		<link>http://www.marketbailout.com/economy/0198-gas-prices-stoop-to-165-as-concerns-for-industry%e2%80%99s-future-are-evident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Browner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price on a barrel of light, sweet crude fell as low as $35.13 just before the Christmas holiday as stockpiles of unused gasoline continued to grow.  It’s hard to imagine that less than a year ago the United States witnessed a record-high $4.11 per gallon at the pump; a time when several economists predicted [...]]]></description>
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