Even though some AIG execs are giving back some bonus money, Dems are on the warpath; BofA forced to turn over list of bonus-receiving Merrill Lynch executives
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Politics | 03/16/2009 9:00 am
Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and other prominent politicians are taking aim at AIG
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Money | 03/04/2009 10:45 am
With four PR firms on its payroll, the giant insurer can’t fix its lousy image
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Ohio Democrat spews at AIG trustee who also helps oversee offshore hedge funds; Liddy says it will take three to five years to pay back taxpayers
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Cuomo probing whether AIG improperly used taxpayer money to pay big banks to make up for toxic credit-default swaps
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
People are angry over the AIG bonus fiasco, but many employees say they are hardworking, underpaid employees trying to make a living, and don’t deserve threats
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Though still angry, President Obama warns we need to keep level head over economy, AIG
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Money | 03/23/2009 12:15 pm
Today may be your lucky day. Keep reading …
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Geithner unveils plan to rid toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets, calls for private industry to share some risk
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
First family adjusts to the White House while Obama faces tough time in young presidency; says humor goes a long way in getting through it
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
These are treacherous and uncharted waters …
By Liz Peek
Media, voters attack Democratic senator for not including restrictions on bonuses in bill, but he says it was Obama’s people who told him to do it; Dodd hurt at home
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Meghan McCain launches misguided attack on Obama’s Leno appearance — will she correct herself?
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Politics | 03/19/2009 3:30 pm
House lawmakers are going after bailed-out business bonuses
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Iowa Republican’s colorful language over AIG executives’ ‘suicide’ is blasted by some, welcomed by others
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Oregon Democrat says he and Sen. Olympia Snowe tried to prevent taxpayer-funded bonus bonanzas, but someone killed their idea; AIG CEO to face Congress today, will ask execs to return $165M in bonuses
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Prominent Senate Republican irate over $165 million AIG bonuses; some want to tax the rewards up to 100 percent, while others warn not paying them out could result in even pricier lawsuit
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President Obama promised his administration would work to stop AIG’s astronomical bonuses
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Politics | 03/05/2009 9:00 am
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow takes late-night TV by storm, talks about AIG’s woes, horrible state of nation’s health-care system, and everyone’s favorite conservative talk-show host
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Politics | 03/03/2009 8:10 am
Sen. Bob Corker used colorful language in describing the government’s AIG plan
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Bankers have
brought down the financial system, helped cause last summer’s rising oil prices and have generally
helped dismantle our economy and our jobs. Can they also be blamed for contributing to terrorist groups?
Some critics say ‘yes’
By Liza Porteus Viana
Money | 10/10/2008 10:45 am
‘Saturday Night Live’ aired Thursday night as part of a series of limited specials. No ‘Sarah Palin.’ No Tina Fey. But the Weekend Update with Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers — discussing Uncle Sam’s sanity level for handing AIG more billions — stole the show
By The Staff at wowOwow.com
Money | 09/29/2008 12:30 pm
The latest financial domino to fall, Wachovia Corp., has agreed to have its banking operations acquired by Citigroup, the biggest U.S. bank by assets
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Money | 09/24/2008 9:00 am
‘Bloodbath’ was result of meetings between Cheney, worried lawmakers; Warren Buffett pumps at least $5B into Goldman Sach, calls current environment an ‘economic Pearl Harbor’
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Money | 09/24/2008 8:30 am
Twenty-six firms and their leaders are under investigation as part of the bureau’s general mortgage fraud inquiry; SEC opens 50 cases
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