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The Problem With Reassuring That The Recovery Is In Full Swing Is…

April 29, 2010

The media blitz is going full throttle with ads of GMC’s CEO Ed Whitacre walking through a plant pronouncing that GMC has paid back its’ loan part of the bailout, namely $6.7 billion, however the taxpayer is still on the hook for $43 billion in stock options; the reporting of the minor dip in shares [...]

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Let’s Hope These 4 Things Don’t Happen

January 14, 2010

By Rick Newman Posted: January 13, 2010 In the cast of corporate characters, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are A-list villains, thanks to the central role they played in the 2008 financial meltdown. The two mortgage-finance firms failed as spectacularly as AIG, the poster child for finance-gone-wrong, with the combined Fannie-Freddie rescue totaling about $111 [...]

Tagged as: AIG, Baby Boomers Retirement, bailout, Economy Precarious, Fannie May, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Foreclosures, Obama, Recession and Recovery, Social Security, Stocks, Tea Party, U.S. Debt

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