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“We Will Recover”: President Obama On The Economy
President Barack Obama gathered politicians and public last night to talk about how to avert the worst economic disaster in since the depression through his plan to improve health care, schools and the environment. More
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Citibank – Can It Avert Nationalization?
As ‘nationalization’ appears to be the U.S. government’s answer to saving the banking industry, the banks themselves are doing all that they can to boost shareholder confidence.
The latest news from Citibank is that they have approached the US government to agree on a new capital injection that would increase their stake in the troubled bank to about 40 per cent but prevent an outright nationalization. More
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Economy In Recession: The Cost Of Allowing Lehman Brothers to Fail
The failure of Lehman Brothers is seen as the last straw that broke the credit market. The financial markets have been in a state of complete disarray ever since the U.S. Government allowed Lehman Brothers to file for bankruptcy on September 15th 2008 instead of intervening to save it, as it did with Bear Sterns […] More