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Max Keiser on the continuing Bank failures

Posted by smeddum on October 26, 2009

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Motor City’s woes extend beyond auto industry

Posted by seumasach on December 23, 2008

Yahoo

21st December, 2008

DETROIT – One measure of how tough times are in the Motor City: Some of the offenders in jail don’t want to be released; some who do get out promptly re-offend to head back where there’s heat, health care and three meals a day.
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Credit-Default Swaps on US Treasuries Have Risen Nearly 40 Percent Since Bailout Law Signed; Now About the Same as on Mexican and Thai Government Debt

Posted by seumasach on October 30, 2008

 

George Washington’s Blog

29th October, 2008

Bloomberg writes the following bombshell:

“Credit-default swaps on [U.S.] Treasuries have risen nearly 40 percent since TARP was signed into law Oct. 3, and are now about the same as Mexican and Thai government debt before the credit markets began to seize up in June 2007.”

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