Tag: Federal Bailouts

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Million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme catches up to California man

Monica Perez · May 28, 2014 9:55 pm

People gather at the Capitol on April 15, 2009, as part of a nationwide protest of taxes and the governments usages. (AP/Peter M. Fredin)

Beltway Confidential

It is hard for Paul Krugman to find conservatives denouncing the bailouts while he steadfastly refuses to read conservatives

Timothy P. Carney · March 19, 2014 12:00 am

Fannie earns $6.5B in 4Q; repaying US bailout

Fannie earns $6.5B in 4Q; repaying US bailout

Marcy Gordon · February 21, 2014 2:08 pm

The blight of bank bailouts

The blight of bank bailouts

stephen-haber, charles-calomiris · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., shown here Feb. 7, is worried that the federal government may have to bail out the insurance industry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Marco Rubio presses to repeal Obamacare provision allowing insurance industry ‘bailout’

David M. Drucker · November 15, 2013 5:00 am

GAO knocks Federal Reserve for failing to implement rules to prevent bailouts

Joseph Lawler · November 14, 2013 5:00 am

All the money for reinsurance and risk adjustment comes from insurers, but the risk corridor is different. At the corridor's center is the point at which a health insurance plan breaks even after paying for patients' care and allowable administrative costs.

If Obamacare fails, taxpayers get to bail out the insurers

David Freddoso · October 27, 2013 4:00 am

Five years ago, the financial crisis crushed the American economy and cost millions of Americans their livelihoods, their homes and their savings.

Examiner Editorial: Politically connected banks got bigger bailouts

Editorial Writer · October 27, 2013 4:00 am

Two Kentucky Republicans who served on a special investigative state House committee accused majority Democrats of disbanding the panel last year without fully investigating sexual harassment allegations against former Rep. John Arnold.

California attorney gets seven years for Ponzi scheme using federal bank bailout funds

Ethan Barton · September 24, 2013 12:00 am

Darryl Layne Woods, the former chairman and chief financial officer of Mainstreet Bank in Ashland, Mo., used $381,487 in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to buy himself a luxury vacation condo in Southwest Florida. (Thinkstock)

Bank official stole government money? Not surprised

Kelly Cohen · August 27, 2013 4:00 am

Fannie Mae hasn't adopted accounting practices to show losses despite being told do so last year by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, according to the agency's inspector general. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fannie, Freddie improperly accounting for losses, IG says

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2013 4:00 am

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees President Lee Saunders contends that cutting the pensions of Detroit's city employees would be illegal. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Union leader: The feds must bail out Detroit

Sean Higgins · August 22, 2013 4:00 am