Tag Archives: TARP

The Stimulus is Totally Awesome

February 19, 2010 – 1:43 am

It’s time for your weekly dose of markets and politics with Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your new home for Conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition, we celebrate the anniversary of the stimulus, unpack the ramifications of the financial meltdown in Europe, and hash out the realities of America’s jobless future.

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If you want to know what deep yogurt is like, this is it

February 4, 2010 – 9:15 am

Japan is up the creek without a paddle. It’s pretty remarkable to hear a BoJ governor saying things that some aggressive hedge-fund guys have been whispering for a while now.

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Yeah, Bernanke’s Back

January 29, 2010 – 11:28 am

Bernanke’s back, the State of the Union is one long chiding of the country, and the markets continue their turmoil on the latest edition of Coffee and Markets, your weekly podcast on politics and the economy with Francis Cianfrocca.

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Why Does Everyone Hate This Jobs Idea?

December 10, 2009 – 11:01 am

So before jetting off to accept his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, President Obama went on a sales run for his jobs package idea — and he came back empty handed. Why do the left and the right both hate this idea for spending TARP funds? We’ll discuss this and more on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Obama’s TARP Audacity: Will This Fix Anything?

December 9, 2009 – 11:04 am

President Obama wants to expand TARP to cover stimulus spending, handing out cash to small businesses to offset the egregious economic policies he’s adopted (and in the case of health care, plans to adopt) damaging their ability to hire anyone. We’ll discuss his Brookings Institution speech on today’s edition of Coffee and Markets.

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Whatever Happened to All Those TARP Funds?

October 26, 2009 – 10:16 am

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on Neil Barofsky’s IG report covering the uncontrolled ramifications of the TARP program, its lack of anti-fraud measures, and how much the taxpayers will end up paying for it all.

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Hank Paulson’s Secret Goldman Sachs Meeting

October 21, 2009 – 9:33 am

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on Hank Paulson’s secret meeting with Goldman Sachs, as reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin and hashed out by Felix Salmon, and whether it’s really worthy of all this internet conspiracy theory hullabaloo.

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That Great, Economy-Rescuing Stimulus Package

August 21, 2009 – 6:17 pm

Er . . . not so much.

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Changing Hobbyhorses In Midstream: On Paul Krugman’s Fallacies

August 12, 2009 – 8:51 am

Paul Krugman believes that no sparrow takes flight without government having helped it to flap its wings. His intelligence is matched only by his monomania.

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The Words “Conflict Of Interest” Come To Mind

July 1, 2009 – 9:00 am

This is what happens when you allow government to get a toehold in private business:

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Morris’s Claim That TARP Is The Gateway To Socialism Doesn’t Add Up

April 22, 2009 – 6:06 pm

Dick Morris says Obama’s plan to convert government-owned preferred stock in TARP-taking banks to common stock is the first step to socialism.

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Bank Nationalization Is On Its Way

April 20, 2009 – 10:53 pm

An MSNBC/New York Times report indicates that the Obama Administration will go forth with bank nationalization by converting TARP aid into common stock shares in banks. The beauty of this approach, from the standpoint of the Administration, is that it avoids a showdown with Congress over bank nationalization by allowing nationalization to take place without any further Congressional authorization.

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